Word: goodrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johanson '39, R. W. B. Lewis '39, H. P. Mendel '40, A. W. Page, Jr. '40, G. W. Phillips '39, J. A. Rousmaniere '40, R. Scully '40, J. Sinnott, Jr. '39, H. P. Williams, Jr. '39, J. P. Willetts '41, R. Witkin '39, and Manager D. C. Goodrich...
Manager: Donald C. Goodrich...
Depression having reached the normal phase of protest strikes against pay cuts and layoffs, Akron rubber workers last week reacted with enthusiasm and a surprising measure of success. Following depression in the motor industry, 37½ percent of the 40,000 normally employed in Akron by Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and General rubber companies were out of work. Like their C. I. O. brothers in Michigan, members of the United Rubber Workers of America complain that they are getting the short end of retrenchment. Young, levelheaded U. R. W. President Sherman Dalrymple accuses the companies of demoting foremen and other supervisors...
Aggravating this general complaint, Goodrich recently announced that either its workers would have to take a pay cut averaging 12.3% or the company would (like its major competitors) transfer a sizable share of its production to other, lower-paid localities. Having rejected this proposal, Goodrich workers also threatened to walk out if 25 supervisory employes retained plant jobs normally held by ordinary workers. Last week both sides accepted a compromise. The union agreed to halved vacation pay. Goodrich agreed to maintain its hourly scales, to give U. R. W. a written agreement...
Hardly had Goodrich's trouble subsided than more serious trouble broke out for Goodrich's neighbor. Goodyear. In Goodyear's (and the world's) largest tire plant U. R. W. members had been grousing because they could not obtain a signed agreement despite an 8-3 labor election victory last year. Lately they have groused about alleged layoff discriminations. When U. R. W. negotiators and Goodyear management got nowhere last week West Akron's forebodings were partly and bloodily realized...