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they failed to disperse they were loaded aboard a bus and hauled to the courthouse, said they would be charged with contempt of court.
Pickets kept salaried employes inside the plant for about an hour Monday.
Negotiations in the strike against the nation’s largest rubber producers were scheduled to resume today after four days of unsuccessful talks in Pittsburgh.
William E. Simkin, chief of the federal Mediation and Con-ciliation Service, summoned the URW and rubber company ne-gotiators to Pittsburgh last week for the talks which ended Sunday.
“There had been intensive exploration of the issues, but no agreements were conclud-ed,” Simkin said after the talks.
Some 50,000 rubber workers struck Firestone Tire and Rub-ber Co., B. F. Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co., and UniRoyal, Inc., on April 20. The General Tire and Rubber Co. plants in Waco, Tex., and here, were struck last Wednesday, idling another 4,000 workers.
URW members are continuing to work at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. on a day-to-day basis while negotiations continue.
The companies, excluding General, have offered the union hourly pay hikes of 40 cents and a 75 per cent unemploy-ment supplemental benefit plan.
General has offered 43 cents in raises and an 80 per cent benefit package for laid off workers.
The union wants bigger hour-ly increases and a 95 per cent unemployment package.
Tire workers currently aver-age $3.68 an hour while non-tire workers get $2.69. Elimina-tion of this pay differential is also a high priority goal of the URW.