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Pickets
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lated among Uniroyal management, was neither confirmed nor denied by top level Local officials in Cincinnati.
The statement claimed that although Uniroyal had offered to continue negotiations on a day-to-day basis after the strike was called, the URW had turned down the offer, “with the result that 22,000 of our people are losing more than $500,000 per day in wages and benefits.”
The circular also stated that “although major economic proposals were submitted on April 12, the union did not present proposals on the labor contract until April 19, one day before the contract expiration deadline.”
It was further claimed that the union’s proposals were “unrealistic and prohibitive, and to date (April 28) the union has made no changes in these demands.”
In Bristol, pickets appeared in front of the Uniroyal warehouse on Center St. Wednesday just after midnight when it was learned that management was going to try to ship from the local warehouse.
Three pickets took up their posts in front of the warehouse about midnight Tuesday and by the time mid-morning rolled around, there were 11. Early in the afternoon there were six.
Four members of management were in the office this morning.