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ing made.

Contention most likely will develop over the companies’ continued plan for pay boost differentials between tire and non-tire employes. This is what George Froehlich, president of Local 45, explained at the meeting he held for the Local’s membership in the borough.

The length of the contract and the guaranteed annual wage provisions will also probably be a stumbling block. A pay boost differential has been contained in each of the last three wage contracts, though the margin was narrowed in the 1965 agreement. Bommarito has labeled the differentials as discriminatory.

The proposals have activated the negotiation sessions which had grown stale. Membership of the three borough Locals were becoming depressed and fortifying themselves for a long drawn-out strike when no apparent progress was reported.

Union members have been collecting a $25 a week check; however, the amount is scheduled to be decreased to $15 per week as the union treasury is being drained with the seven week strike involving some 55,000 members.