**Date:** 9-6-7
**Source:** Unknown
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Picketing remains quiet and orderly in the borough today as negotiations between the United Rubber Workers and UniRoyal continue in Cincinnati. Four trailer trucks and four U.S. Mail trucks entered and left the Warehouse on Elm St. yesterday afternoon without incident. Eleven other trucks approached the gates and the drivers turned away without entering.
The first truck to enter the gates was from Darcey’s, a Waterbury trucking concern. The second truck from Wilson Freight Co. out of New Haven, followed by an Elliot Bros. truck from Waterbury. The last truck was rented from a local dealer by Lombard Bros.
The truckers who turned away were greeted with calls from the picketers, “There goes a good Teamster.” Although the picketers moved back from the gates to let the trucks pass by without incident, calls could be heard. The freight cars that were moved into the Warehouse Friday have not as yet been moved out.
Local management of UniRoyal went into Waterbury Superior Court Friday to seek an injunction to restrain mass picketing after strikers demonstrated last week and sought to keep white collar workers from entering the Maple St. gates.
Judge Leo V. Gaffney ordered United Rubber Worker officials to appear in court this morning at 11 a.m. for a show cause hearing on the injunction sought by UniRoyal. At that time he issued a warning to the union to halt mass picketing. Since Friday, only small teams of pickets have been stationed at the gates. For the past two days, white collar workers have crossed the picket lines with friendly remarks exchanged between the two groups.
The injunction sought today would ban mass picketing, close formation picketing and marching in the vicinity of the UniRoyal plants. Some 5,500 employes are entering their third week of strike. No information as to how the negotiations are progressing or what the issues are, that hold up agreement on the master contract.