The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 44, No. 14 (April 6, 1955)

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2 Weekly Review I
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• Labor Relations •
2 Negotiations Continue
2 Four Decisions
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At The Clan's presstime com-panywide
pension and insurance
talks between representatives
of Goodyear and the union were
continuing in Cleveland.
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Decisions covering four grie-vances
heard by Paul Guthrie,
former umpire, have been
handed down and are reviewed
in this issue of The Clan.
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Grievance No. 8061-E
Case No. G-99
Union protest that employes
in Dept. 437 (box manufactur-ing
) are not making job wage
level.
Digest: It was contended
, piecework rates here must be
inadequate, resulting in the
failure to attain job wage level.
This condition had prevailed
for some time, union claimed,
but earlier in the department's
history the employes had earned
job wage level, and better. It
was argued, therefore, that
changes must have been made
in the work.
Company replied that the
contract does not guarantee job
wage level earnings. Reason for
the lower earnings at this time
probably stemmed from a vari-
4 ation in orders and other cir-cumstances,
it was • explained.
In other words, conditions vary
from time to time, which cause
fluctuations in earnings.
Umpire concurred with the
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PROTECT OUR GOOD NAME
AKRON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1955
$1,540 Paid For Suggestions Will Help Winners
Number 14
Pay Their Income Tax Bills Or Buy Easter Outfits
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• DIAMOND EARRING •
IS LOST BY NINA •
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Nina Bodner, elevator :
• operator, Plant 1, is wear- •
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Q perhaps in the parking lot. 2
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· will contact her, either at •
< the plant or by her home 9
2 telephone, Plaza 3-7236. •
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Spanish Club Meets
Friday, April 15
The Los Buenos Vecinos Span-ish
Club will hold its annual
card party on Friday, April 15,
at 8 p. m., at 688 East Buchtel
avenue ( International Center
Building ). The public is invited.
For particulars and tickets call
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Stella Robison, secretary to J. W. Hendershott, suggestion
department manager, has an appreciative smile as she scans a fan
of checks worth $1,540, awarded to forty-one Goodyearites for
ideas last week.
LATEST FIGURES ON SAVINGS BOND DRIVE
Latest report from Goodyear's coast to coast U. S. Savings
Bond drive, announced Monday by D. H. Walker, general chair-man,
appear below. Walker reports that returns are scattered and
incomplete and a further report will appear in The Clan next week.
Returns from Goodyear Akron tire personnel are as follows:
Committee Chairman
J. L. Nicholson
E. H. Reed and R. C. Harman
L. E. Spencer
F. W. Lohmann
A. E. Firestone
W. H. Nicol
P. S. Gould
E. R. Wolfe
PLANTS OUTSIDE AKRON
City
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Rockmart, Ga.
Decatur, Ala.
Miincie. Ind.
Wind,tor, Vt
Topeka. Kan. .......
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
New Bedford, Mams.
St. Marys, 0.
Akron (GAC)
Lincoln, Neb.
Houston. Tex.
Los Angeles. Calif.
Jncknori. Mich. .
Representing Departments
Reporting To
F. T. Magennis
P.E.HLeroy... ...,..........
P. W. Litchfield and E. J. Thomas .
R. S. Wilson and J. M. Linforth
( Akron only)
H. L. Hyde ............. .........
R. P. Dinsmore......
F. W. Climer ., ..,
Russell DeYounir
( Akron only )
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The Goodyear tire plant at
Gadsden, Ala., which began its
drive on March 30, a week later
than other plants, had moved
from 34 to 56 per cent participa-tion
at presstime.
Field sales and operating re-turns,
wholesale and retail, are
just coming into campaign head-quarters.
A further report of all
domestic' operations will appear
in The Clan next week.
FRANK D. BOOTHE
GETS $280 CHECK
FOR HIS THINKING
Randall Furr Awarded $170, As
W. R. Ellis Adds $160 To
His Savings Account
Just as the deadline for pay-ing
income taxes approaches and
the season for purchasing Eas-ter
outfits is at hand, the award-ing
of $1,540 last week to sug-gestion
winners may prove to be
convenient for some who
"tapped" Goodyear's "idea" cash
barrel.
:*This latest distribution," said
J. W. Hendershott, :'brings the
total since January 1 to $4,050,
compared to $3,545 for the same
period last year."
Heading the list of recent
winners was Frank D. Boothe,
Dept. 251D, curing, Plant 2, who
was awarded $280 for suggest-ing
the reduction in size of swab
used in his department for paint-ing
treads. The change increased
considerably the average number
of tires painted per gallon of
dope.
Randall L. Furr, Dept. 111M,
zone engineering, Plant 1, won
$170 for instituting friction
clutch for fiber coupling on cer-tain
rheostats on calender train
in Dept. 133A. New clutch re-duces
breakdown time.
Winning $160 was W. R. Ellis,
Dept. 286A, production control,
Plant 2, for submitting new pro-cedure
on the shipment of wrap-ped
second tires from one de-partment
to another.
Ridley P. Tabor, Dept. 111K,
machine installation and mainte-nance,
Plant 1, made and in-stalled
a presser roller for use
on elevators. The new roller
eliminates gear slippage and
down time on automatic eleva-tors.
He received $135 dollars.
Awarded $50 were Ross J.
Wertz, Dept. 102F, research,
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Bonds buying. Guess me and you
had a lot to get credit for in
pushing the program along. It
takes fellers with energy like us
to get things going.
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