THF raiMfisoflT naw =J = AKRON EDITION = PROTECT OUR GOOD NAME Vol. 35 AKRON', OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1946 No. 18 Weekly Review Colorful Ceremony Marks Laying Of — OF— Labor Relations Cornerstone Of Senior Scout Lodge Reclaim Stoppage STRUCTUREIS TO Simkin Hears Cases Here's How New Scout Lodge Will Look When Completed ; BE COMPLETED BY Reclaim Plant operations still SEPTEMBER were at a standstill Monday i NEXT night when The Clan went to press, despite sporadic attempts Dedicated To Memory Of Three to resume production. Idling 350 Senior Scouts Who Lost persons, the work stoppage be- Lives In World War gan last Thursday, when fifty- seven first shift men staged a "sitdown" in protest of com- CORNERSTONE of the new pany policy in "docking" em- senior scout lodge in Good- who left work early dur- year Heights was laid Sunday previous pay period. afternoon at a colorful cere- ;"sitdown"startedinDept. mony presided over by Stanley tfhen twenty-seven refiner R. Miller, scout executive of the Ss Akron area council. operators refused to run their mills at the beginning of first The new building, now half shift. Thirty minutes later thir- completed, is expected to be ty men in Dept. 221M, reclaim ready for occupancy by Good- receiving and storage, stopped year Air and Sea Scout units working. Union leaders failed next September. At that time in an attempt to get the men the $54,000 lodge, sponsoredby to resume work, after which Goodyear, will be turned over supervision notified the fifty- officially to the Akron area seven participants that each scouting council. was suspended for seven days. reported Sunday's ceremony opened Subsequent shifts but with a hag raising. Fifty Good- did not work. yearAir and Sea Scouts and of- Some first shift employes re- ported Monday, but not ficers, dressed respectively in could uniforms of sky blue and navy work because the mill room was blue, stood idle. Second shift started up, at attention as the stopped bugle sounded. Rev. Harry D. but soon * * work.* Rose, pastor of the Goodyear Heights Presbyterian The issue was not a new one. — United '- - ~*^^ 'j^i^m^mY^l Church, gave Some time ago supervision re- mmwM&*' t-i&lwmBl Bhk / //» Wfc ./m^ Srt/ the invocation. minded reclaim employes they Short talks were made by C. be "docked" if they per- B. Alexander,president of the 4^B<> in quitting work before Akron area council, and Ed "^ThIshift change. The refiner oper- Hamlin, chairman of Goodyear ators are paid on a daywork- scouting activities. Two other piecework basis. Dissatisfied scout leaders, Paul Shamberger with this arrangement, they An architect's drawing of the front of the new senior scout lodge being built in Goodyear and Clem Home, both of the filed a grievance which included Heights for Goodyear Air and Sea Scout units. Goodyear Export Company, a protest against "docking." were introduced. Shamberger is This grievance reached Impar- eastern district Boy Scout com- tial Umpire W. E. Simkin the GET VACATION FEVER ArnsteinBack From METZLER SAYS HELLO missioner, and Home is Air same day the work stoppage Department163B, Plant 1re- "Say hello for me to the boys Scout commissioner of the Ak- occurred. treading and repair, is getting Cruise On Carrier in Dept. 195E, transportation, ron area. Simkin took under advisement the vacation fever, after receiv- Plant 1, and tell them I'll be After a brief talk on local phase of the grievance per- ing achievements, that several picturesque cards Karl Arnstein, presi- back there working with them scouting Miller taining to "docking," but re- from one of its members, A. S. Dr. vice as soon as possible," writes A. laid the cornerstone, dedicating ferred back the rate protest for Rasmussen, who is touring Cali- dent and chief engineer of Air- Metzler, employe, to memory craft, is at his desk this week, W. former it the of three company-union negotiation. fornia and Mexico. Rasmussen, now with the army in Le Havre, former senior scouts who died Company and union representa- well-known Goodyear silent, following a short cruise on the in II— Air Scouts aircraft carrier Tarawa and a France, in a letter to The Clan. World War tives studied the rate question writes that he met several for- He says he thinks he may be Thomas Alspach and Glen Monday. Goodyearites visit to the naval air station at * * * mer Akron while Patuxent, home late in May or early in Brooks and Sea Scout Officer visiting the Los Angeles plant. Md. June. Michael Balca. Simkin heard six grievance Dr. Arnstein made the trip Thursday. The fathers of these boys are cases last His next upon specialinvitation of Secre- employed at Goodyear. N. N. hearings are tentatively set for SON COMING HOME tary of the N'avy James F. For- WRIGHT SPEAKER Wednesday, May Alspach is manager of Good- 8. Isabelle Butcher, Dept. 162F, estal in company with more W. C. Wright, director of year Industrial University. Pet- stock preparation, Plant 1, is than a hundred members of the management training, Aircraft, er B.Brooks is a Plant 1power- HOWARD AIKEN DIES looking Institute of Aeronautical spoke gradu- Joseph Howard J. Aiken, 65, em- forward to the dis- to membersof the house foreman. Balca charge of her son, Robert, from Sciences. ation class of Euclid Central works in Dept. 152B, Plant 1 ploye of Dept. 7, accounting, military aboard the Tarawa High Plant C, Aircraft,, died Sunday service next month. While Vocational School at the truck tire pit preparation. morning. He had twenty-six Robert, a corporal, left last from NewYork to Norfolk flight vocational conference held at Young Balca's widow, Mrs. Goodyear, Thursday to return to Kennedy demonstrations by the carrier's that school last week. More Balca, in Dept. 643, years' service with Memphis, planes, power persons present Jane works having worked in Dept. 432A, General Hospital, an air show and than 800 were Plant 1factory payroll, and his warehouse finished stock, Plant Tenn., after a thirty-day fur- an exhibition of special naval for the vocational training brother, Joseph Jr., is in Dept. 8. before joining Aircraft. Be- lough home. equipment were observed. demonstration. 114, Plant 1 electricians. sides his wife, he leaves two Sealed inside the stone were sons, a daughter and three photostatic _. _.._ neighbor "slip" copies of the origi- brothers. Services were con- i%**al?T" HA ■*■ When a friend or or relative asks you to a "want ad" The Clan for Publication, please "Ads" for The nal Air Scout and Sea Scout ducted yesterday at Adams Fu- PLEASE DON T DO II. to don't take it. charters, and a group picture of neral Home. Burial was at Ty- Clan's columns are for employes only. rone, Pa. (Continued on page 2) "THE WINGFOOT CLAN 2 AIR SCOUT MEET R. T.Brown Cited j Laying Of Cornerstone Of Scout Lodge In Goodyear Heights For His Services JUNE 15PROMISES TowardWar Effort mWmWm^ZZnz^^*jMmmWtwwmW&M9.' -**^c■ "*»«#j# GREAT DAY mm^m -~*bbm ifa iL^aaBBa^Baai bbi TO BE y/^B '.- Two wardepartment citations BDMfifi . fWajw mm ?MWf! in "appreciation for patriotic Ten Councils May Have Entries service in position of trust and In Model Plane Events responsibility" have been re- ceived by R. T. Brown, who At Hawk Field from 1940 through September, 1945, served as manager of A big day for Air Scouts of - engineering Akron scout F* W Amk m &*1 PBfcl|H military products and other councils vlfll fi»- tL^B aaP^ for Goodyear. of northeastern Ohio is sched- Citations were made for en- uled June 15, when this group gineering and managerial ad- will invade Hawk Field for the vice to chief of ordnance as a first sectional Air Scout meet member, subcommittee on rub- ever held. ber products, SEA ordnance ad- Designed to promote competi- I'jA^k^LW -A"^ f RlaVaal aBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBT«? BBbW -fl V visory committee and for out- tion in model plane events, the standing services rendered in affair will attract entries from time of war to the tank and ten scout councils. Prominent motor transport development guests and friends of scouting program of the ordnance depart- have been invited, according to ment. Clem Home, general chairman Both citations bear the sig- of the committee in charge. natures of RobertP. Patterson, An all-day program has been secretaryof war,and Lieutenant arranged, with flying time at General L. H. Campbell Jr., Hawk Field set for 9 a. m. chief of ordnance. Model plane events are sched- Graduatedfrom Georgia Tech uled to last until late after- in1918, Brown served in World noon. Prizes valued at $1,000, War Ias a lieutenant in the including plaques, trophies and 1'*' >-— -—-X*^, artillery. C-rfV^T ■-■ass^, m m aaaaaa^Kw ,g Mmti: jft> -,. T*^B field He has been with personal . m ;^". mwgxj^iM*!**. ,-JSLi' ■ , j^3t items, will be award- m*'*^~ ..-. ;* w!mWm*Tt* <£" *7^mW Goodyear twenty-seven years. ed dinners. Lunch and refresh- : -t^'X**^? ments will be served by Girl * ' ■ ' '*-f <y',* maAlttjaBfr W%i.\fymmmm)m:Wmmmm :^ f Air Scouts. ».'f^^-S&i^iii.2<2Srf*.*"?. ii■ . 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