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Akron Tests the Six-Hour Day: Less Work-Less Leisure
Swados, Harvey | February 22, 1958 issue

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In the Akron, Ohio of today, it is hard indeed to realize that it was only twenty years ago that the Firestone strikers threw up shacks of canvas, wood and tin as picket shelters at the freezing factory gates. Now this industrial city is clean, prosperous and not slum-ridden and to the casual visitor the workers themselves are transformed too, they are no longer the grimly huddled proletarians of those terrible and dramatic days. Long-time experience with the shorter work-day that has made Akron a focus of interest as a possible forecast of what all America will be like in the future.

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LABOR; DEMONSTRATIONS; FACTORIES; PICKETING; AKRON (Ohio); OHIO; UNITED States
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