<p>Sometimes you have to sit down in order to stand up for your rights as a worker.  That is what workers in the Firestone rubber plant proved in Akron, Ohio today in labor history, January 29, 1936.  Akron was the heart of the rubber industry in the United States, employing 40,000 at its peak.  </p>

Sometimes you have to sit down in order to stand up for your rights as a worker. That is what workers in the Firestone rubber plant proved in Akron, Ohio today in labor history, January 29, 1936. Akron was the heart of the rubber industry in the United States, employing 40,000 at its peak.

<p>Sometimes you have to sit down in order to stand up for your rights as a worker.&nbsp; That is what workers in the Firestone rubber plant proved in Akron, Ohio today in labor history, January 29, 1936. &nbsp;Akron was the heart of the rubber industry in the United States, employing 40,000 at its peak.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

January 29 - Rubber Workers Join the Sit-Down Wave

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