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UNIROYAL CHEM-TEXTS
Vol. 10, 1976 PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL No. 2
10 Uniroyal Scholarships Offered
Ten Uniroyal Merit scholar-
ships are offered to children of
employees through the nation-
wide scholarship program of the
National Merit Scholarship Cor-
poration.
All children of Uniroyal em-
ployees, who have more than 5
years of continuous service as of
the date of the award, are eligi-
ble for the scholarships.
Application Must
Be Filed
Applications for the 1978
scholarships must be submitted
by November 10, 1977. They
can be obtained from the Indus-
trial Relations Dept., Continu-
ance Antrum, Ext. 3217 along with a
folder which gives complete de-
tails on the scholarships.
Students who wish to apply for
a scholarship must do so during
their junior year by taking the
Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude
and National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Tests which are usu-
ally given in October by the high
school. Students should check
the school office for the dates of
the tests.
Awards Up To
$1500 Yearly
The maximum amount of the
award is $1500 each year during
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Mazaika
Factory
Manager
Robert Mazaika has been
named Factory Manager of the
Naugatuck Chemical Plant. Prior
to this new appointment he was
responsible for the Sales, Mar-
keting, Technical Service, and
the Research & Development of
the division’s Plastics and Latex
products. He succeeds James
Cronin who was named Chem-
ical Planning Manager.
Mazaika joined the Naugatuck
Chemical plant in 1957 as a
chemist in the Research and De-
velopment department. In 1963
he became a Technical Repre-
sentative for rubber chemicals.
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Sales, Profits Drop
The Company expects to re-
port a third quarter net loss of
about $6 million on sales esti-
mated at $490 million. Uniroyal
Chairman and President, David
Beretta, indicated that the 140-
day strike (which was settled on
September 5th) against 15 of the
Company’s major domestic
plants was primarily responsible
for the loss. The lengthy strike
caused inventories to become de-
pleted and resulted in loss of
sales during the period.
Foreign Income Lower
Income from foreign opera-
tions was also lower than antici-
pated as a result of currency de-
valuations in Mexico and the
reduced value of currencies in the
United Kingdom and generally
lower than anticipated level of
3 Year Contract Signed
Joseph Rzeszotek, United Rubber Workers’ President of Local 218, left; Charles Roland, United
Rubber Workers’ President of Local 308, center; and H. Frederick Wintsch, Industrial Relations
Manager look over the three year contract that was recently signed.
The Master Labor Agreement
and other agreements covering
wages, pensions, insurance, sev-
erance pay, and supplemental
unemployment benefits, negoti-
ated by Uniroyal and the United
Rubber Workers, were recently
approved by the Union. All im-
proved agreements are now in
effect with the exception of the
master labor agreement which
will become effective when local
supplemental agreements are ne-
gotiated and signed by the URW
Plant Locals 218 and 308.
The new agreements, covering
a 3 year period, were effective
on September 3, 1976 after over
six months of negotiations in
New York City.
The contract provides for wage
increases over the 3 year period,
a cost of living allowance and
improvements in pensions, life
insurance, sickness and accident
insurance, medical insurance.
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United Way Goal $16,500
Walter Frankenberger, Chairman of the United Way Drive at the
Naugatuck Chemical plant points to the 1977 goal of $16,500.
The goal for the United
Way Drive, which is conducted
throughout the plant annually,
has been set at $16,500. Walter
Frankenberger has been named
Chairman for the campaign to
raise funds for the sixteen agen-
cies which provide a wide variety
of social services to help meet the
human needs of the people in the
community.
The Naugatuck Chemical
plant has topped its UW goal for
four consecutive years, and just
missed last year’s goal of $17,500
by $362.
The Chemical plant has dis-
played a generosity that has con-
tributed nearly 33% of the total
amount of the Industrial divi-
sion’s section which includes all
of the firms in the Naugatuck
and Fairfield areas.
“Give Where You Work”
The philosophy of the United
Way is “give where you work.”
This method has proved the most
efficient way to raise the needed
money for the agencies in the
fund. It eliminates the money
often wasted in promoting good
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activity in the Canadian mining
and extractive industries.
4th Quarter Improvement
Expected
Beretta expects a strong 4th
quarter performance which
should continue in 1977 as the
Company capitalizes on continu-
ued strong automotive sales. He
also pointed out that the pro-
grams instituted by the Company
in the past year which have
streamlined product lines and
organization and improved mar-
keting capabilities should have a
continuing positive effect on per-
formance in subsequent quarters.
1975 Third Quarter Higher
In the comparable 1975 quar-
ter, the company earned $4.9
million on sales of $529.5 million.
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