Word: goodyear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after 16,700 Goodyear workers had been off the job for 15 days, Firestone's 16,500 employes went on strike too. With two other major companies shut down for repairs, Akron was paralyzed. U.S. manufacture of military tires, tubes, self-sealing gasoline tanks dwindled dangerously. Appeals to strikers' patriotism failed; so did "orders" from WLB. Finally (only four days after he had ordered seizure of the Port Arthur, Tex., plants of the Texas Co.), Harry Truman told the Navy to take over the Goodyear plants...
Obediently, Goodyear strikers, whose strike had cost the U.S. 272,000 tires, an equal number of tubes, trooped back to work. But Firestone employes made no move to follow suit. At week's end it seemed probable that, to restore full production, other Akron plants would have to be seized...
...first shipment of crude rubber from the Philippines since Pearl Harbor is presumably on the way to the U.S. this week. The amount is small-66,500 Ibs. But the story of how it was prepared, by Mateo Ruiz, 40-year-old chief clerk at Goodyear Rubber Plantations Co.'s 2,500-acre Pathfinder plantation at Kabasalan, on Zamboanga, was one to make businessmen beam...
...time U.S. troops arrived on Zamboanga last March, beaming Mateo Ruiz had his first shipment baled and ready. In a long, businesslike letter that reached Goodyear last week, Ruiz told what he had accomplished...
Mateo Ruiz's word to Goodyear last week was that Jie expects production to soar, now that Zamboanga has been retaken by MacArthur's troops. It would help considerably, he said, if Goodyear would send him an outboard motor: it was needed to replace the rotted sail on the small boat used to collect food and coconut oil on Sibuguey Bay. Also, Manager Ruiz anxiously hoped that Goodyear officials would understand another item: due to inflation in the Philippines it had been necessary for him to raise his salary-to $150 a month...