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the city’s income tax revenues.
The Chamber of Commerce said retail store sales also dropped off in May and June and banks reported a heavy draw on sav-ings.
It also was reported that many wives of strikers had gone to work and that strikers them-selves were finding jobs.
URW President Peter Bom-marito said Thursday that a $1 million check from the United Auto Workers union to bolster the URW’s nearly depleted strike fund would enable the un-ion to “carry out our strike ben-efit plan indefinitely.”
The union’s strike fund stood at $6.5 million when the strike began.
About 50,000 rubber workers were on strike against Fire-stone Tire & Rubber Co., B.F. Goodrich and Uniroyal. The firms were struck April 20.
Another 4,000 workers were idled last week when the union struck two plants of the Gen-eral Tire & Rubber Co.
Work at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. continued on a day to-day basis.
Peace resumed in Akron Thursday after mass picketing incidents the last two days. Lo-cal 5 members met with union officials and Summit County Prosecutor James Barbuto and aired a list of grievances that triggered the picketing. Includ-ed was a charge college stu-dents were hired to do produc-tion work, which was denied.