Title
Interview with Clyde Harriman
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Date of Interview
7-24-2002
Duration of Audio File
Audio File 1 -- 01:08:18; Audio File 2 -- 01:15:00; Audio File 3 -- 0:36:38
Interviewee
Clyde Harriman
Age
Born approximately 1932; 70 at time of interview
Gender
Male
Description
Harriman was a leader of the workers' successful unionization effort in the 1960s. He was Vice-President of the paper workers local for a few years before leaving the mill to work in the Portland, Maine post office.
Birth Place
Likely Portland or Westbrook, Maine
Residence
Likely Portland or Westbrook, Maine
Occupation/Work History
Paper mill worker, union official, U.S. postal service worker.
Role
Union
Mill or Principal Employer
S.D. Warren Company
Mill Location
Westbrook, Maine
Keywords
Paper mills - Maine, Sappi Paper - History, S.D.Warren - Maine, unionizing, paternalism, gender discrimination
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 Clyde Harriman" (2002). S.D. Warren Company. 40.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/sd-warren/40
Comments
Most detailed description of unionization campaign of any of the project's interviews. Encounters paper union organizers who misunderstood mill's successful paternalism that helped the company defeat numerous unionizing efforts the 1940s and 1950s. As a key organizer, he and his in plant committee took control of unionization campaign, focusing on frequent meetings with women workers in the mill. Early years of union featured constructive relationship between union leaders an management (not true of later mill labor relations). Union bargained successfully to end mill's discrimination against women, particularly in vacation weeks and layoffs (women's seniority was largely ignored).