1943 Akron rubber strike

Labor strike in Ohio, United States February 2025 1943 Akron rubber strike 1943 5 21 – 1943 5 26 Akron, Ohio 49,300 workers The 1943 rubber strike was a five-day strike from May 21 to 26 of nearly 50,000 rubber workers affiliated with the United Rubber Workers of America in U.S. state of Ohio.Firestone Rubber Strike Ends https://www.nytimes.com/1943/02/02/archives/firestone-rubber-strike-ends.html The New York Times 2 February 1943 Centered on the city of Akron, 49,300 workers at the Firestone, General, Goodrich, and Goodyear companies went on strike.Perkins Frances Strikes in 1943 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 13 https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/strikes-1943.pdf The strike contravened the "no-strike pledge" given by leaders of the Congress of Industrial Organizations to the government at the outbreak of World War II in support of the war effort. On May 26, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent union leaders a telegram describing the strike as "a defiance of the War Labor Board, a challenge to Government by law, and a blow against the effective prosecution of the war."Franklin D. Roosevelt, Telegram to Union Leaders on the Rubber Strike in Akron. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210087 Strikers returned to work the following day.Associated Press AKRON STRIKE ENDS AS MEN HEED ORDER; Rubber Workers Virtually All Back at Work by Time Set in Roosevelt Ultimatum https://www.nytimes.com/1943/05/28/archives/akron-strike-ends-as-men-heed-order-rubber-workers-virtually-all.html The New York Times 28 May 1943Monthly Labor Review 1944 https://books.google.com/books?id=yiEXAQAAIAAJ&dq=1943+rubber+strike+Akron&pg=PA120 en See also 1936 Akron rubber strike References Category:Labor disputes in Ohio Category:Transportation labor disputes in the United States Category:History of Akron, Ohio Category:1943 in Ohio Category:1943 labor disputes and strikes Category:Rubber industry Category:Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Category:United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America Category:Labour history of World War II Category:May 1943 in the United States