**Source:** Unknown
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NAUGATUCK – An unidenti-fied union spokesman in Cincin-nati reported negotiations will continue today as the strike against Uniroyal’s three plants here by the United Rubber Workers remains and pickets continue quietly.
Due to an agreement between union and manangment groups not to release any information, no indication of progress was given.
Whether or not some of the major union demands had been granted was not known, al-though it is believed the great-est stumbling block preventing a settlement is the demand for a guaranteed annual wage.
At present, six-member picket teams keep vigil at the compa-ny’s main entrances, permitting office workers to pass through the lines. How much longer pickets will permit this remains in the air, but one picket recent-ly remarked that there was “too much business going on in there.”
Members of the three Nauga-tuck locals, 45,218 and 308, have by now filed for strike benefits which entitle them to $25 weekly until the strike ends. The last paycheck have been received.
Although union members also remain in the dark as to the progress of the negotiations, ru-mors are circulating among the membership that the strike will continue for some time to come.