**Date:** 4-22-67
**Source:** Unknown
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NAUGATUCK (AP) — Three divisions of employes at the Uni-Royal plant here are at a stand-still on strike against the company as a national walk-out of United Rubber Workers continues in its second day.
The strike affects the foot-wear, synthetics and chemical divisions. Some 5,500 workers, members of locals 45,218 and 308 are involved.
Although B. F. Goodrich was also struck, the Shelton and Derby plants of the Goodrich Sponge Products Division are not unionized and therefore maintained regular production schedules.
The first day of picketing at Uniroyal passed quietly. No incidents were reported, and management personnel were allowed to enter the plant under a prior arrangement with the union.
Locals 45 and 308 suspended picketing last night for the weekend, and Local 218, chemical plant personnel, was scheduled to picket one gate today until 6 p.m. There will be picketing tomorrow.
There were strikes at Uniroyal formerly the U.S. Rubber Co., two years and eight years ago at Naugatuck. The 1955 strike lasted three days and the 1959 walkout stopped production for three weeks.
Nationally, the strike involves more than 50,000 workers and is the largest to hit the industry since 1959. The union called its members out against Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the B.F. Goodrich Co., and Uniroyal, members of the industry’s Rubber Manufacturers Assn.