**Date:** 1967-05-16
**Source:** Waterbury Republican
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NAUGATUCK – Around-the-clock picketing in the 26-day-old Uniroyal strike was halted at the footwear plant Monday and the original 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. schedule restored.
Reason for the reduced schedule, officials of the 4,000-member Local 45, United Rubber Workers, said, was management assurance that no effort to move trucks in or out after 6 p.m. will be made.
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 reached the union, prompting the meeting with management.
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 at 10 a.m. today in Cincinnati, Ohio.