A HEAVY TOME ON THE RUBBER WORKERS
Coleman, Mcalister
A Heavy Tome On The Rubber Workers THE RUBBER WORKERS, by Harold S. Roberts, Harper and Brothers, New York. $4. Reviewed by McAlister Coleman THIS is a book to delight the heart of the labor...
...The layman, as he reads Mr...
...Otherwise said layman is apt to bog down in the mass of production figures, union contracts, and the other raw materials of research which a more merciful author might have worked over to make a more readable book...
...Reviewed by McAlister Coleman THIS is a book to delight the heart of the labor researcher...
...It fairly bristles with charts, figures, graphs, and documents...
...The winning of that strike started industrial labourites everywhere on the road to fresh victories...
...In view of the fact that about all the general public, outside of Akron, knows about the '36 Goodyear strike, comes from Ruth McKenney's grossly inaccurate and Communist-angled book, Industrial Valley, it seems that Mr...
...Roberts' documentations, must bear in mind that this is the story of a bunch of hard-boiled American workingmen who every now and then have to stop wrestling with the gum in the pits to wrestle with the bosses at the conference table...
...Roberts might have devoted a little more attention to this crucial struggle and a little less to his footnotes which on many pages take up more space than the main text, but the book is not intended for the general reader, so this may be a captious criticism...
...This last was the test of strength not only of the gum-miners' union, but also of John L. Lewis' rebel movement...
...A senior economist for the War Labor Board, Mr...
...Roberts has done an enormous amount of spade-work to give us the history of the United Rubber Workers of America, the lusty infant born during the tumultuous strikes at Akron, O., the most important of which was led by organizers of the newly formed CIO in the terrible Winter of 1936...
Vol. 8 • August 1944 • No. 32
