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...called a protest strike, that 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. The Goodyear strike was an unauthorized "outlaw"' disturbance, perpetrated principally by WPA groups and non-Goodyear people, many admittedly former rubber workers, now unemployed in this era of the more abundant life...
...Akron police "let a nonstriking minority in and out." Actually 85% and better of Goodyear employees were on the job the day following the so-called night of rioting, and the U. R. W. did not declare the disturbance a strike until after the riot had occurred. U. R. W. leadership has since raised hell with its membership for unauthorized stoppages of work, declaring no more will be tolerated...
...possibly is just a small point to your college boy writers, but the Goodyear disturbance was not primarily a Goodyear strike, and it was not originally an authorized U. R. W. strike, although such fine points of reporting escape your nasty nice writing boys...
Akron naturally has rubber odors [TIME, June 6]. It is hardly fair, however, to refer to the "pervading stench" of Akron. ... If you must insist upon enlarging on the factory odors and the "flatlands" you should in fairness mention the odorless highlands of Goodyear Heights, one of our outstanding workingmen's developments of East Akron...
Chilled by this good start towards a labor war, both sides quickly sobered. Republican, antiC. I. O. Mayor Lee D. Schroy temporarily reduced police contingents around Goodyear, swore to put every officer in town on duty when the plant reopened after Decoration Day. But a scant few hours before the zero hour, U. R. W. leaders persuaded 3,000 rubber workers gathered in meeting to accept management concessions: 1) to enforce a seniority rule, 2) to negotiate for a written agreement, 3) to discuss wage adjustments. Next morning the rubber workers went peaceably to work...