**Date:** 7-11-67
**Source:** Unknown
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EDITORS:
The Industrial city of Naugatuck is the steel girly of a 13 week strike involving 5,500 members of the United Rubber Workers’ Union of America. The union’s chief employer, the UniRoyal plant, the economic crisis is reflected in various ways with the situation approaching the crisis stage for some, an occurrence unmatched during the Depression or in 1959 when a strike lasted three weeks. “Hell,” says one man,” that was just pie and ice cream compared to this.” Here is a special report.
By JAMES V. HEALION
NAUGATUCK, Conn. (UPI) — “Look, if people aren’t working, they can’t buy. They can’t make payments and you can’t get new business. I’m in high school, but this is pretty rough. I’m not going to be the one in college is going to be able to go back.”
Even if the negotiations in Akron, Ohio, do reach agreement in the next few days, it is seems clear that the plant would not return to normal until at least most Labor Day because the annual vacation shutdown begins July 28.
The economic loss due to the strike is reflected in odd ways: short collections in the city’s churches; parking meter revenue is down 40 per cent, and in Boulanger’s tap room, they’re drinking beer instead of whiskey.
JAMES HEALION
A housewife whose husband is employed at the UniRoyal plant says, “We’re getting pretty low on clothes, the kids’ shoes, anything for the house. But we won’t quit. If they don’t give in, I say we won’t either.”
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A housewife whose husband is employed at the UniRoyal plant says, “We’re getting pretty low on clothes, the kids’ shoes, anything for the house. But we won’t quit. If they don’t give in, I say we won’t either.”
He’s a sometime critic, sometimes praised, 250 salesmen are on the road canvassing their agencies to prove that the striking impact of the strike is not just to the local area.
At this time of year, 250 to 300 salesmen are on the road canvassing their agencies to prove that the striking impact of the strike is not just to the local area but nationwide. The company is feeling the sting. The impact of the strike is being reflected in its footwear is operations, which is down some 20 per cent, Reuther, president of the union, says.
Another source says that when the strike ends, the company expects to recall about 800 new employees the ones known to have been active in the Waterbury, Conn., local, in addition to others.
At the time of year, 250 to 300 salesmen are on the road canvassing their agencies to prove that the striking impact of the strike is not just to the local area but nationwide. The company is feeling the sting. The impact of the strike is being reflected in its footwear is operations, which is down some 20 per cent, Reuther, president of the union, says.
This theory seems to have an element of possibility, in that, however remote, since the rubber workers appear allied with Reuther’s union than any other union, except their own, because a good portion of UniRoyal’s products are for the automobile industry. The company is feeling its sting, the company, however, is feeling the sting.