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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...
...remedy the housing problem, the noted economist suggests that the guaranteed interest rate of the Federal Housing Administration be reduced from five to four percent. Lower building material costs and reduced hourly wage rates are vitally necessary. "With building costs as high now as in 1926 and the national income 25 percent lower," lower," he said, "the situation is not favorable for a large expansion in housing construction...
...kitchen workers and waitresses will also cast their ballots on the unionization question but they have already signed a contract with the University for sole bargaining rights and are conceded an 85 percent majority...
...They all demonstrate their benevolence by treacherously and amusingly destroying one another. There is a denunciation of war, carried out by rather obscure ballet, and jibes are distributed to the Vassar girl who finds a job at Macy's, the upper crust on a slumming party, the 100 percent American, and the Federal Theatre, with its repressions and inhibitions, all of which are quite effective except the last, which drags. The most fun of the whole show, however, is the scene called Economics I, in which the elementary principles are set forth by having the banker shoot in the pants...
Eighty-five percent of Harvard upperclassmen take part in some extra-curricular activity revealed the Crimson Questionaire distributed last Thursday, and it is House athletics and activities which are largely responsible for such a high percentage...