Making Paper- Strikes


Boise Cascade strikers, Rumford, 1980

Boise Cascade strikers, Rumford, 1980
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Maine Historical Society

Members of the United Paperworkers International who were on strike at the Boise Cascade paper mill in Rumford move out of the way of a large truck trying to deliver a load of pulp to the mill on July 30, 1980.

About 1,200 members of the union went on strike after rejected a contract offer. Nine strikers who tried to block delivery of pulp trucks had been arrested two days before this photo was taken.

The strike lasted about a month.

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