**Date:** 3-15-67
**Source:** Unknown
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AKRON, Ohio (UPI) –Talks were expected to resume today between the United Rubber Workers (URW) and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. after mass picketing brought a day’s interruption. Several hundred pickets who gathered at the Goodyear headquarters here dispersed after an injunction was issued in Summit County Common Pleas Court. It limited pickets to two at each gate. A Goodyear spokesman said the firm had been assured salaries and laid-off employes would be allowed to enter the plant today. In addition to Goodyear, the URW was to continue to meet with Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and Uniroyal, Inc. Tentative settlements were reached last week with General Tire & Rubber and B. F. Goodrich, the first breaks in the now 88-day-old strike. The strikes idled 76,000 workers. Firestone was the only company to meet Monday with the Union. It was reported to have placed the same offer on the table that produced the two other settlements. The General and Goodrich agreements call for wage increases of 43 cents an hour over three years and a supplemental unemployment benefit program giving laid-off workers 80 per cent of their regular pay. The URW was allowing maintenance and service workers to go back to work at the two General and nine Goodrich plants to prepare them for resumption of production. No date had yet been set for a ratification vote on the agreements. A union spokesman indicated workers may return at Goodrich before the agreement is ratified.