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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...
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...
...called a protest strike, 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant and up from the flatlands. Akron police also swarmed, commanded pickets to break up the jams around Goodyear's gates, let a nonstriking minority in and out. The jams thickened, police charged the lines. Nineteen-year-old Striker Donald Dixon was shot through the kidney, a woman through the right hand, a policeman in the face. Forty-seven others were wounded, gassed, or sufficiently knocked about to require medical attention. Police then scooted to U. R. W. headquarters, shattered its windows and drove out its occupants with...
During the past year this big man and his small Sealyham, Deacon, have become familiar visitors to art dealers, art galleries, museums and artists throughout the U. S. In preparing the Paris show, the Museum's scholarly, sensitive Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. merely advised; Mr. Goodyear did the picking. After last autumn's fiasco, he did a businesslike job. The 80 living artists represented include most of the well-known names in U. S. art. But they also include a discreet number of young or obscure artists whose merit is known...
...paintings chosen reflect the taste of A. Conger Goodyear, they also reflect the extent and distribution of art patronage in the U. S. Of 120 contemporary paintings, 36 were borrowed from museums, 32 from private collectors. Of 88 older paintings, 45 were borrowed from museums, 28 from private collectors. Nearly one-third of the contemporary paintings remained in the possession of dealers or artists: i.e., unsold...