The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 43, No. 24 (June 16, 1954)

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Carl Baker was installed as
president of Local 2 at an over-flow
meeting, last Thursday, of
the local's membership, despite
T the protest of Baker's opponent,
George Milliron, that there had
been irregularities in the recent
election.
Installed also were all the
newly-elected union officers, sev-eral
of whom had been chal-lenged
for the sarne reason.
Milliron's protest was read at
the meeting, but no action was
taken on the matter. The mem-
1)ership, instead, voted 128 to
102 in favor of installing the
new officers, the union reported.
Following this, Milliron and
his running mate, Harry Doyle,
vice presidential candidate, an-nounced
they would submit their
r,rotests, with a request for a
vew election. to President L. S.
;'uckmaster of the International.
Retiring President Leslie
,hnson of Local 2 presided at
e meeting.
According to the union, Presi-nt
Buckmaster has the pre-
<rative of ruling on the re-est
for a new election himself,
can refer the matter to the
ernational's executive board.
ortly before presstime Buck-ster
was reported out of the
.. The board, however, is
eduled to meet this week
·'ek of June 13 ) at Spooner,
4., and could hand down its
ision at that session.
f the protest and new elec-i
request 13 denied, Milliron
i Doyle still may appeal the
ision to the International
:vention, which meets in Sep-nber
in Boston, according to
' e linion.
The charge regarding the vot-
: trregularities stemmed from
; •'omplaint that 404 more per-
18 voted for president than
2 poll books showed.
; :•aker's margin over Milliron
... the election, held May 26, was
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AKRON, OHIO WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1954 Number 24
$2,500 Suggestion Award Goes To Rine//a
Who Had Been Saving To Build New Home
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TOTAL OF $4,010
PAID TO EMPLOYES
FOR THEIR IDEAS
p Top Winner Happy Because He
Says His Dream Has
At Last Come True
Joseph A Rinella (center), Plant 1 machine shop, receives a check for $2,500, Goodyear's top
suggestion award, from E. F. Pierce, superintendent of plant maintenance and machine shops, for
one of his winning ideas. F. W. Kohankie (right, center), department foreman, and associates
witness the presentation.
Be Loyal To Your Company At All Times 1
GGDon't Bite The Hand That Feeds You."
There's an old saying to the
effect that you shouldn't bite
the hand that feeds you.
Some people, perhaps without
even realizing it, actually vio-late
this rule, despite its ob-vious
warning that to do so is
to do an injustice to themselves.
Translated into industrial
jargon, the statement indicates
that any company employe who
buys a product made by a com-peting
company, when he could
have purchased the sanne (and
even better ) product from his
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own company, is really biting
the hand that feeds him.
That is why all Goodyearites
should buy products which are
either made or handled by
Goodyear.
The more goods the company
sells, the more people it can
keep on the payroll. Sales de-termine
the extent of employ-ment.
No company, whether it
produces brass tacks or rubber
tires, can keep employment at
a high level when its sales are
at low ebb.
That's why Sales Mean Jobs I
Frank Cueni Says He Insisted On Goodyear
Tires For His New Car-And He Got Them
Frank Cueni, who retired on
June 4, last year, after forty
years' service, returned last
week with his wife from a win-ter
spent in Miami, Fla., and ex-pects
to remain in Akron dur-ing
the summer at 606 Lumiere
street.
•I bought a new automobile
recently jn Miami," said Cueni,
"and I told the salesman I
wanted Goodyear tires on the
car. He said he couldn't do that
for me. So I told him it meant
no sale. I also told him I worked
for Goodyear in Akron forty
years and I knew that Goodyear
tires are the best.
66Well, to make a long story
short, the dealer, eager to sell
a new car, finally agreed to put
on Goodyear tires. After the
tires were placed on the four
wheels, I paid the bill and drove '
away. I'm telling you that if
Goodyear employes insist on
Goodyear tires-and insist hard
enough-their request will be
granted. Dealers in cars don't
want to pass up a sale if they
can prevent it."
Maxine Waring, Dept. 384,
Airfoam, who had been absent
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of the pension plan to retire
during the month of May were:
Alexander Allison, Dept. 384D;
Fred W. Davies, Dept. 371G;
George W. Derhammer, Dept.
116; Walker W. Eyster, Dept.
233B; Arthur W. Gerlock, Dept.
315; Isaac Gilmore, Dept. 251D;
Anna E. Gumper, Dept. 273A;
Clifton W. Jackson, Dept. 156E;
Edward Jones, Dept. 235B; Sal-vatore
Marino, Dept. 295X; El-wood
M. Murvine, Dept. 295E;
Anna Murphy, Dept. 191E:
Clyde B. Myers, Dept. 152E;
Stephen P. Savolt, Dept. 137C;
Carroll W. Seyler, Dept. 191A;
John Shill, Dept. 295E; Joseph
C. Wiggins, Dept. 141 and Moisi
Yova, Dept. 291A.
COMPLETE TRAINING
Jim McCune of Goodyear's
Topeka, Kan., plant; Jack Wood-liff
of Goodyear's Gadsden, Ala.,
factory and Bill Johnson of
Goodyear's fabric mills, Cedar-
• town, Ga., completed the 1954-
on sick leave, has returned to • 1955 training and planning ses-work.
sions at Goodyear recently.
Speedwalk Will Be Shown On Television
Over WXEL Channel 8 Thursday At 5 P. M.
Scenes of the Goodyear Aircraft Speedwalk installation,
along with those of the opening of the world's first commer-cial
Speedwalk installation for the Hudson & Manhattan Rail-road
in Jersey City, N. J., will be shown at 5 p. m. Thursday,
June 17, over WXEL, channel 8.
The pictures will appear on the 6'Good Neighbor" pro-gram,
conducted by.Ted Anthony:
P. W. Freitag, Goodyear prOJect engineer for passenger
conveyor belt systems, will participate in a five-minute dis-cussion-
on the films.
The evolution and growth of the •moving sidewalk" idea
will be featured on this first program of a series, which will
feature the rise of prominent people or an idea.
•GAIN the cornucopia con-taining
suggestion money
was upturned last week and out
rolled $4,010 for Goodyearites
who had meritorious ideas.
The top winner was Joseph A.
Rinella, Plant 1 machine shop,
who drew the highest cash prize
the company offers for a sug-gestion-$
2,500. And this
amount will be a big lift for
Rinella, who scid he had saved
and saved for years to enable
him to build a new home.
'6Now my dream of a new
home will come true," said
Rinella, when he received the
top suggestion prize. "I had
been saving to buy a lot on Can-ton
road. This $2,500 prize will
enable me to purchase the lot
and begin building operations
sooner than I had anticipated."
Rinella's idea calls for a new
method of die casting inserts for
a newly developed tire. E. F.
Pierce, superintendent of plant
maintenance and machine shops,
made the award presentation.
"I knew the suggestion was
a good one, said Joe, 66but I
never thought it would win the
jack pot award." Rinella had
received $60 for two of his pre-vious
suggestions.
Native Akronite, Rinella at-tended
South High School and
Hower Vocational School. He
did machine work in job shops
in Akron until 1941, when he
entered the air force. He taught
school in an air force machine
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I'll tell you, Ezra, them Cleve-land
Indians is going to town
and is heading for the pennant.
As a side remark, I have learned
that one trouble with socialism
is that it soon runs out of rich
people and has to fall back on
folks like me and you.
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