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...Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...more alarming to motormen last week than Organizer Dillon's talk were actual preparations for a strike in Akron, Ohio's tire & rubber plants of Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone. Flatly rejected by managers had been demands for abolition of company unions, recognition of A. F. of L.'s United Rubber Workers union. Late in the week the National Labor Relations Board hopefully stepped in, demanded that Firestone cease violating NRA's Section 73. The Board accused the company of refusing to allow its employes to elect their own representatives for collective bargaining, of favoring and financing...
Across West Virginia coal fields, through Ohio tire towns, around Michigan automobile factories, over Pennsylvania steel plants and past New England textile mills, the first warmish winds of early spring last week wafted vehement talk of strikes. This chorus of discontent was music to the ears of Labor's leaders, assembled in Washington. For weeks they had been using, with no great success, all their powers of peaceful persuasion to induce Congressional committees to act upon a stack of labor legislation. By last week they were resorting to threatening strike talk as a means of blasting their pet measures...
...Emperors: he married Agrippina, the wickedest woman in Rome, let her groom her son Nero for the throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond. He knew his successor Nero would be a terror, trusted that the people would rise against him and restore the Republic. His part played, when he knew that his wife was planning to have him killed...
...Freshman he captained the squash team and is a banjo soloist in the Instrumental Clubs. Teamed with Germain Glidden '36, he plays number one doubles on the tennis team. His squash record is long and triumphant, including the Intercollegiate title last year and gaining tire semi-final round in the Nationals held last week...