**Date:** June 2, 1967
**Source:** Waterbury American
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NAUGATUCK- Although scheduled talks on a master contract between the big five rubber companies and United Rubber Workers failed to take place this week, it was learned this morning that individual firm and union officials of each company local are meeting in small groups for continuation of negotiations.
Officials of Locals 45, 218 and 308 are in Cincinnati, Ohio. However, the team of Uniroyal Company negotiators has returned here, with the talks being carried on by New York officials of Uniroyal.
The strike against Uniroyal and two other giant rubber companies enters its seventh week today.
Union spokesmen said the reason for the cancellation of Wednesday’s and Thursday’s talks was to enable the negotiating committees to meet privately. The cancellations, it was noted, were by mutual agreement.
In other developments it was learned Thursday that URW International President Peter Bommarito may file unfair labor practice charges against Uniroyal.
Bommarito alleges that a mutual aid pact between the five rubber firms is interfering with “good faith bargaining.”
The URW filed unfair labor practice charges against Firestone Thursday, and plans “to file similar charges against each of the other four parties who are parties to this strike assistance pact.”
The international president charged that the mutual aid pact was the cause of the strike against Uniroyal, Firestone and B.F. Goodrich.
Work has continued on a day-to-day basis at the other two members of the big five, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and General Tire and Rubber Co. Pickets at the three borough operations continued Thursday, with no reports of mass picketing among any of the three locals.