**Date:** TUESDAY MAY 16, 1967
**Source:** Unknown
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NAUGATUCK– Pickets at the iled to resume at 10 a.m. today strikebound Uniroyal Footwear Plant have gone back to their original hours of picketing from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., following an agreement with management that no effort will be made to move trucks in or out of the plant after 6 p.m., Local 45 union officials said Monday night.
The arrangement does not affect schedules at the chemical and synthetic plants where picketing continues around the clock.
Decision to reduce the picketing schedule at the footwear plant came after a three-hour meeting between the union and company officials Monday morning at which management also assured the union no attempts at footwear production would be made by supervisory personnel.
Local 45 spokesmen said rumors that such an effort would be made starting Monday had become so prevalent the meeting with management was deemed necessary to pin down the matter one way or the other.
Around-the-clock picketing began May 3 when reports reached the union that management intended to resume shipping. Two days of scuffling followed before the strike reached an even keel again.
Contract negotiations aimed at ending the strike are scheduled to resume today in Cincinnati, Ohio.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Negotiators for the United Rubber Workers and the General Tire & Rubber Co. recessed bargaining after the URW contract with the nation’s fifth largest rubber producer expired at midnight.
Another meeting was scheduled today as work continues, a union spokesman said.
Representatives of the company, with headquarters here, met with union negotiators at Cleveland.
General has 3,052 workers in the URW, which has been on strike against three of the country’s big four rubber companies for 26 days.
That strike idled more than 50,000 April 20 at plants of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., B. F. Goodrich Co. and Uniroyal.
Employes of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have continued to work on a day-to-day basis after the April 20 deadline.
Negotiations have continued with Goodyear and Uniroyal in Cincinnati, Goodrich at Columbus and Firestone in Cleveland.
Neither side has commented on the negotiations.