**Date:** 7.24.67
**Source:** Unknown
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No break has yet been re- ported in the 94-day United Rubber Workers UniRoyal strike. According to sources an all-day session was held yesterday in Cincinnati with small committees meeting through the night.
URW International President Peter Bommarito moved into talks Friday between the union and the two remaining rubber companies, UniRoyal and Good- year.
Hope ran high Friday in the borough that a settlement would be reached sometime during the day. However, another week- end has past and the mood has returned to the passive waiting of previous weeks.
Vacation pay checks are scheduled to be distributed to- morrow and Wednesday to em- ployes of the Footwear Plant. Many workers have planned va- cations for the next two weeks, settlement or not. Other em- ployes have been waiting for these checks to give their fi- nances a boost.
Chemical and Synthetic plant workers have been scheduling their vacations at various times during the strike. These plants do not have a general shut- down as does the footwear plant.
AKRON, OHIO (UPI)—United Rubber Workers locals in Akron and Miami, Okla., voted Sun- day to accept a new contract from the B. F. Goodrich Co., bringing the 94-day strike, long- est in rubber industry history, closer to an end.
The process of ratification continued at Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and General Tire & Rubber Co. during the week- end. Negotiations with Good- year Tire & Rubber Co. and UniRoyal Inc., did not arrive at a settlement hoped for during the weekend.
Some 4,000 URW members jammed the auditorium of Ak- ron University to shout approval of the new Goodrich con- tract. Local 5 here has 4,900 members, almost half of the 11,000 employes covered in the contract.
In Miami, where the Good- rich employes have been back working since Friday, Local 318 approved the contract by a voice vote. Other votes from other locals around the country were expected today at URW international headquarters here.
A majority of locals must rat- ify the contract before it is offi- cially accepted.
General’s two tire factories, here and in Waco, Tex., were expected back in full produc- tion this week, following the vote by Local 318 in Waco to ratify the contract Saturday.
All 3,000 URW members in the General Tire factories have ap- proved the contract.
Some 17,000 Firestone em- ployes, in 11 locals in 9 states, were to begin voting on their settlement ‘today.
A majority of the more than 75,000 strikers, however, are still idled. About 22,000 of them have been out since April 20th when UniRoyal was struck. The 21,000 at Goodyear did not strike until July 14.
A Goodyear spokesman de- clined to make any comment about what was holding up ne- gotiations.
They were taking place in Cincinnati.
Conform To Pattern
The settlements, when they are achieved, were expected to conform closely to the pattern already set.
The three settlements will all provide raises of 43 cents per hour to production workers, in steps of 15, 15 and 13 cents. The contracts will include a supplemental unemployment benefit plan giving laid off workers 80 per cent of their regular wages.