**Date:** 5-10-67
**Source:** Unknown
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NAUGATUCK-Uniroyal officials agreed Tuesday to continue to issue for two weeks their Superior Court petition for an injunction against the United Rubber Workers Union to restrain mass picketing at the strike-bound footwear plant here.
The company accepted the agreement suggested by Judge Leo V. Gaffney “with the understanding that there will be no interference whatsoever with the (company’s) operations,” company attorney Dwight F. Blanton of Bridgeport said.
While Judge Gaffney spoke of Waterbury picket teams at the borough remaineequiet and small in number.
A repeat of Monday’s performance was staged again Tuesday when trucks were allowed to enter the warehouse on Elm St. without incident. Although the exact number of trucks approaching the gate were not approaching the gate, it was learned that a case would have been established for the issuance of an injunction.
He said he was “willing to go along” with the continuance in the hope that “good relations” which existed between the company and the union prior to the current strike “can be restored.”
The judge cautioned, however, that he will be available at any time, including Saturdays and Mondays when the court is not normally in session, to hear the case should the union violate the terms of the agreement. “I will come from wherever I am and open court” he said.
He told the union that if it restricts the picket line to a reasonable number of pickets, spaced properly, and there is no name calling, “we won’t have any trouble here.”
He also warned that it is “incumbent upon the union to keep the…three or four agitators who are stirring up trouble…away from the picket line.” He said the names of the “agitators” are known to him and to union officials.
Although the Naugatuck operations have decided to continue their court petition, it was learned that injunctions have been granted to Uniroyal operations in Mishawaka, Ind., where there are 3,700 employes in one local. Injunctions have also been granted to two Uniroyal operations in Ohio and Alabama.