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...reconversion outlook for some representative U.S. companies: GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. Output of tires and plastics for civilians can begin immediately. Estimated postwar employment: 30% greater than the prewar peak of 28,561, but only 30% of their 1942 wartime employment peak...
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...
...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...