**Date:** e-2-c
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in early April, however, that it wouldn’t prohibit any of the member companies from reaching an independent agreement with the union satisfactory to itself.
The effect of the pact, Bommarito charged, has been interference with employes’ rights to engage in concerted activities guaranteed by law because their ‘exertion of economic pressure is diminished or destroyed.’ The result has been, he held, that Firestone has refused and is refusing to bargain collectively, in violation of the law.
He reiterated earlier charges that the five rubber companies for 20 years have negotiated wage increases and other benefits that parallel or are in tandem with those in the auto industry but that “now they have refused” to follow this policy.