Title
Interview with Jon Falk
Streaming Media
Date of Interview
7-27-2004
Duration of Audio File
57:18:00
Interviewee
Jon Falk
Age
Born in the early 1950s; was in early 50s at the time of the interview.
Gender
Male
Residence
Carmel, Maine
Occupation/ Work History
Forester, independent woodcutter, union leader, union official.
Role
Union
Mill or Principal Employer
Maine Woodmen's Association
Mill Location
State of Maine
Keywords
Woodcutters Strike, Maine Labor History, Maine Paper Industry
Abstract
Interviewee Jon Falk was a key organizer and leader of the MWA (Maine Woodmen's Association) at the time of the strike and for several years after. The interview describes the difficult conditions and domination by paper companies that provoked loggers to strike in 1975. Falk gives a detailed account of the strike itself, and the ensuing history of the MWA until its demise in the early 1980s.
Document Type
Interview
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Interview with Jon Falk by Michael Hillard, July 27, 2004, Stories of Maine's Paper Plantation, Digital Maine, Maine's Economic Improvement Fund, Digital Commons, University of Southern Maine.
Comments
Falk was a progressive activist and logger who helped to organize the MWA and conduct the strike. As a trained forester (with a graduate degree from Yale University) and experienced logger, he provides a sophisticated analysis of the difficult working at the time of the striek. He also wrote an important study of labor conditions in Maine's forestry industry: Jonathan Falk, “The Organization of Pulpwood Harvesting in Maine” (School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Working Paper No. 4, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1977);