Letters, Jul. 4, 1938

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Odorless Highlands (Cont'd)

Sirs:

. . . You say the U. R. W. called a protest strike, that 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. The Goodyear strike was an unauthorized "outlaw"' disturbance, perpetrated principally by WPA groups and non-Goodyear people, many admittedly former rubber workers, now unemployed in this era of the more abundant life.

You say Akron police "let a nonstriking minority in and out." Actually 85% and better of Goodyear employees were on the job the day following the so-called night of rioting, and the U. R. W. did not declare the disturbance a strike until after the riot had occurred. U. R. W. leadership has since raised hell with its membership for unauthorized stoppages of work, declaring no more will be tolerated.

It possibly is just a small point to your college boy writers, but the Goodyear disturbance was not primarily a Goodyear strike, and it was not originally an authorized U. R. W. strike, although such fine points of reporting escape your nasty nice writing boys.

H. C. ATKINSON Executive Secretary

Akron Chamber of Commerce Akron, Ohio

Sirs:

". . . U. R. W. called a protest strike, 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. . . ." The strike was not authorized in the beginning and not called until long after the trouble. . . .

JAMES E. ALPETER Police Prosecutor

Criminal Division Municipal Court Akron, Ohio

Sirs:

. . . With reference to the so-called strike. . . . No strike had been called. Earnest Union men had met to discuss their problems. They were in session working them out when a few radicals and a few nervous women—just as you may have in New York, commenced to disturb the peace, and the efficient alert Akron Police Department stepped in and restored order. A boy was shot, but you are wrong again when you say he was a striker, and perhaps any boy who knowingly runs into trouble should expect to get hurt. However, our City Hospital, with the latest scientific equipment, is taking excellent care of him and he is improving rapidly. . . .

ALEXANDER D. KING

Chicago, Ill.

TIME has already replaced the Seven Hills in Akron's odorless landscape (TIME, June 27). TIME'S story, otherwise in order, erred in the following particulars: 1) The Goodyear strike was not approved by the local union until after the rioting had begun; 2) The majority of the rioters were apparently not Goodyear workers; 3) Donald Dixon, the 19-year-old who was shot through the kidney, was no striker, but a hospital employe.—ED.

Vigor through Enjoyment

Sirs:

In TIME of June 13 under Transport you are translating the name of the German movement Kraft durch Freude as Strength through Joy. This is a correct literal translation but does not express the spirit or thought back of the movement.

Using synonyms for Strength through Joy you would obtain Force through Gladness or Power through Pleasure which are obviously very hackneyed phrases. . . .

To express Kraft durch Freude in English and retain its initial meaning it would be much more fitting to translate it as Vigor through Enjoyment or Vitality through Delight or Health through Happiness. . . .

PAUL C. BRUHL

Highland Park, Mich.

New Deal Defined

Sirs: