Title
Interview with Carl Van Husen
Files
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Date of Interview
6-22-2006
Duration of Audio File
0:42:24
Interviewee
Carl Van Husen
Age
Born April 25, 1933, 76 at time of interview, died aged 81 on August 21, 2014
Gender
Male
Occupation/Work History
Forestry manager. Bachelors in Forestry from Syracuse University. Worked for Scott Paper 1959 - 1992, worked then for several years for Sewall Company in Old Town, Maine.
Role
Management
Mill or Principal Employer
Scott Paper Company
Mill Location
Managed Southern Bingham Logging District for Scott Paper.
Keywords
Woodcutters Strike, Maine Labor History, Maine Paper Industry
Description
Van Husen describes Scott's logging operations in the Bingham area. Van Husen was responsible for company-hired loggers known as "company crews" of loggers, as opposed to independent contractors. Scott owned about 500,000 acres of woodlands in central Maine. Two key themes: 1. the use of Canadian guest workers, some of whom had an informal wildcat strike in 1966, and 2. the early experiment of Scott's to use 4 Beloit mechanized harvester machines.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Hillard, Michael G. PhD, "Interview with Carl Van Husen" (2006). Maine Woodman’s Association Strike of 1975. 2.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/maine-woodsmans-strike/2
Comments
Very detailed on the problems with using the mechanized equipment, but also the ability to cut up to 25 percent of the company's Maine cuts of wood pulp. Scott pulp wood initially went to mills in Westbrook and Winslow, but later to the new Scott "S.D. Warren Division" mill in nearby Skowhegan/Hinckley, Maine, first opened in 1976.