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By PATRICK KEATING
Register Staff Reporter
NAUGATUCK – Peace and or-
der, conspicuous by its absence
during strike demonstrations
here Thursday and Friday,
which resulted in wholesale ar-
rests, returned once more as the
strike by the United Rubber
Workers Union against Uniroyal
enters its 17th day.
The turnabout from an explo-
sive atmosphere is attributed by
both union and management of-
ficials to the successful applica-
tion by Uniroyal in the Water-
bury Superior Court Friday for a
restraining order against URW.
The order as granted compels
Local 45 of the Footwear Divi-
sion to restrict the mode of its
picketing and also desist from
attempts to prevent manage-
ment personnel, company trucks
and other public conveyances
from entering and leaving the
factory.
The union’s insistence that
m a n a g e m e n t personnel be
barred along with no shipping of
company products during the
strike touched off the disturban-
ces that almost reached riot
proportions on Thursday and
Friday.
Union officials who were indi-
vidually served with restraining
order proceedings Friday night
agree that they must abide by
the court orders.
Start Monday
Accordingly, on Monday office
help and supervisory employes
will be permitted to cross the
picket lines without any challen-
ges. The same policy will be in
effect as to entrance the depar-
ture of any trucks that might be
transporting Uniroyal merchan-
dise.
Members of the union were
instructed Friday night on these
privileges granted the company
as a result of the order. They
also were requested to abide by
the court action.
The order should eliminate
hard feelings that were aroused
between the strikers and mem-
bers of the borough Police De-
partment. Some pickets re-
quired hospitalization and so did
some policemen reportedly in-
jured in the scuffling.
Charges have been hurled
back and forth and there was a
report Friday night that a suit
may be levied against the bor-
ough by the union over a sup-
posedly act of brutality.
Contract Talks
Meanwhile, forgotten in the
rash of demonstrations was the
progress, or lack of it, at the
conference table at Cincinnati
where a new contract is being
negotiated.
The talks were recessed for
the weekend and will be re-
sumed Monday morning. A con-
tact at Cincinnati reported that
apparently no great step was
taken to reach an agreement.
In Naugatuck, the strike
called April 21 has shut down
operations at the Footwear, Che-
mical and Synthetic Divisions of
Uniroyal.
And for union members, it
means that they are now in the
third week of a strike that has
already cost them two full pay
checks.
Financial Aid
Some financial assistance will
be forthcoming on Tuesday and
Wednesday when Locals 45, 218
and 308 will hand out special
strike benefit checks to their
memberships.
The crippling strike has not
only hit the union members hard
but is also being felt by stores,
restaurants, business esta-
blishments and tradesmen that
rely on factory workers for
much of their revenue.
The economic pinch has also
hit the borough in an unusual
way since its meter receipts
have been greatly affected. Em-
ployes of the Footwear Division
while at work use the all-day
meters, costing 25 cents for an
eight-hour period.