**Date:** 4-26-66
**Source:** Unknown
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NAUGATUCK — Negotiations, various improvements in em-|Chemical division of Uniroyal, paperwork when the forms do ployee benefits,” it made no may appear at local headquar- arrive, as the local has approxi-| ters on Curtis St. today and mately 4,500 members. Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. to Footwear Payroll apply for strike benefits. Officials at the footwear plant Locals 45 and 308 have not yet announced Tuesday that payrolls for hourly employes of the plant will be paid on the following days: The regular Wednesday pay-roll will be made today after 1 p.m. at the payroll office. The second and third shifts will be paid Thursday after 2 p.m. at the office, and the first shift will be paid Friday at the Water St. gate from 9:30 a.m. to 4 between Uniroyal, Inc., and the United Rubber Workers will re-sume in Cincinnati today at 10:30 a.m. As yet, no official word on the actual progress of the negotia-tions up to last Friday has been received although neither side has denied statements in the press to the effect that a major stumbling block in the negotia-tions is the union’s demand for a guaranteed annual wage. Although the company an-nounced it had offered a “sub-stantial increase in wages and While negotiations continue in Ohio, the various locals continue to picket the plant’s operations. Picketing in Naugatuck remains peaceful, and it has been reported that many workers are volunteering to work on the pick-et lines. Strike Benefits Local 218 Treasurer Robert McDermott said Tuesday that members of the local, which operates in the Naugatuck division, have not yet received the necessary material to enable its members to apply for the benefits. Mrs. Rita Ruggiero, secretary of Local 45, said that officials of the local were thinking in terms of Thursday or Friday. Action before that time, said Mrs. Ruggiero, ‘would be im-possible because the necessary material has not come in. She anticipates a heavy amount of p.m.