**Date:** 5-8-67
**Source:** BEACON FALLS
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Office and supervisory em-ployees at the Uniroyal plants in Beacon Falls and Naugatuck crossed picket lines without in-cident this morning to go to work.
About 50 persons entered the Beacon Falls plant — the first to do so since the strike be-gan April 21. Some 200 went into the Naugatuck plant. There was no violence or name – call-ing.
There were perhaps a doz-en pickets on duty in Beacon Falls. Token picketing in Nau-gatuck was in sharp contrast to the mass picketing of last week.
Raymond Mengacci, vice president of Local 45, United Rubber Workers of America, told The Sentinel today that he had ordered his picket captains to permit no interference with persons entering or leaving the plants.
Warning Heeded
Union officials have said they would heed the warning given Friday by Judge Leo V. Gaffney of Superior Court in Water-bury against mass picketing.
A hearing will be held at 11 Court on Uniroyal’s application for an injunction to bar mass picketing and picket – line viol-ence.
Meanwhile union officials announced that strike benefit checks will be available tomor-row and Wednesday.
Members of Locals 218 and 308 may get their checks be-tween 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. at their local headquarters.
Members of Local 45 will re-ceive them on the following schedule at union headquarters: Tuesday morning, Clock Num-bers 1, to 3000; Tuesday after-noon, 3001 to 7000; Wednesday morning, 7001,to 11000; Wednes-day afternoon, 11001 to 15999.