In its first year of operation, the Firestone grossed more than $100,000 in profit. Initially, the company was not involved in the actual production of rubber. Instead, they purchased premade rubber and attached it to carriage wheels.
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Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
It all began at Sweitzer Street and Miller Avenue in 1900. That’s where Harvey S. Firestone began the world famous Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Less than 50 years later the company would grow to include 48 factories spread out over 19 states and 10 countries.
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company – Factory
The rubber boom brought with it thousands of jobs to the Akron area, but in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many of the workers faced low wages and dangerous conditions. Organizers of the United Rubber Workers sought to improve the lives of workers. The URW formed in 1935 and organized their first major strike on Akron’s rubber…