**Date:** 1967-08-01 **Source:** The Evening Sentinel — BEACON FALLS Local 308’s Contract Rejection Won’t Affect Uniroyal Production Local 308, United Rubber Workers Synthetic division, rejected the master contract Friday night which was recently agreed upon by the union and Uniroyal, Inc., in Cincinnati. Less than one-fourth of the 240 members of the local turned out … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-27 **Source:** Uniroyal Union — Wage increases over the par-ed will totaL 40 cents an hour, with a 15 cent increase this year, July 1, 1968 and 10 cents on June 30, 1969. Skilled trade employes will receive an additional 10 cents an hour this year. Sources indicated that al-though the wage differential be-tween … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-26 **Source:** Naugatuck, Conn. — Negotiations between UniRoyal and the United Rubber Workers union ran well into midnight this morning in Cincinnati with apparently no agreement reached. In the event of a settlement during the annual scheduled footwear plant shut-down, striking URW members are being asked if they desire to work instead of vacationing … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-25 **Source:** Established 1885 — With four of the “Big Five” rubber companies settled with the United Rubber Workers Union, prospects for an early settlement between UniRoyal, Inc. and the union look particularly good today. The annual three-week vacation shutdown of the UniRoyal plants throughout the nation–this Friday. The firm began distributing vacation checks … Read more
**Date:** 1/24/47 **Source:** AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Rubber workers in Akron voted overwhelmingly Sunday to accept a three-year contract with the B.F. Goodrich Co. A spokesman for Local 5, United Rubber Workers, said the standing vote was “about 3,000 for and 25 against.” Goodrich has 10,930 union members in nine locals and the Akron local … Read more
**Date:** 4-21-47 **Source:** Unknown — By PATRICK KEATING Register Staff Reporter NAUGATUCK — A strike, the second in the past two years against the Uni-Royal by the United Rubber Workers, AFL-CIO, has closed the company’s tire-making local divisions and idled some 5,000 workers today. The decision to strike the entire Uni-Royal operation was made earlier … Read more
**Date:** 6/23/54 **Source:** AKRON, OHIO (UPI) — Signs of optimism were apparent today in the 90-day-old rubber industry strike. There also were further signs of the walkout’s growing financial toll, as the B. F. Goodrich Co. reported its second quarter net income was down 92.5 per cent. Goodrich and General Tire & Rubber Co. reached … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-19 **Source:** Naugatuck, Conn. — AKRON, Ohio (UP) — Observers looked for further breaks in the 88-day-old rubber industry strike today with attention focused on the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. talks in Cleveland. United Rubber Workers International President Peter Bommarito was in Cleveland to assist at the negotiations. A Firestone spokesman said, “we’re … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-15 **Source:** Waterbury American — AKRON, OHIO (UPI)–With| General — but two cents to less the nation’s rubber production down to 25 per cent of its total, negotiators for four major tire companies and the striking United Rubber Workers (URW) took a weekend break. There was little hope a tentative agreement reached Thursday with … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-11 **Source:** THE WORKER — AKRON, O.–This rubber city with some 300,000 population is in the throes of a long drawn out strike that has passed its 80th day. There are 52,000 on strike in 36 cities, about 15,000 of them here. The key work in Firestone, Goodrich and Uniroyal whose base is in … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-11 **Source:** Unknown — Violence, which began Thursday at the strikebound Naugatuck footwear plant of Uniroyal, continued today as 21 arrests were made, Manganielli, vice president of Local 45, United Rubber Workers, with bullhorn urges striking employes to allow male office workers through the plant gates this morning. At right, office workers begin marching … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-01 **Source:** Waterbury Republican — NAUGATUCK — A new type the area large numbers of the Uniroyal strikers rushed to Waterbury to join long lines of people signing up. No one was flatly refused, but strikers were told they would receive final word during the coming week. As the rumor spread around the borough … Read more
**Date:** 7-1 **Source:** Unknown — AKRON, OHIO (UPI)—The head of the United Auto Workers Union said Friday a wage offer to striking United Rubber Workers (URW) by major tire producers was “miserly.” Walter Reuther, who has taken up the cause of the striking rubber workers by pumping more than $1 million into the URW’s strike … Read more
**Date:** 6-25-61 **Source:** Unknown — (Continued from Page One) Uniroyal counsel J. Kenneth Bradley questioned Mengacci at some length about ‘flare-ups’ at the gates early in May when pickets attempted to keep office personnel from entering the plant. 71 Arrests The three days of clashes between pickets and police resulted in arrests of 71 strikers … Read more
**Date:** 6 27 **Source:** Unknown — Continued From Page 1 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 … Read more
**Date:** 1967-06-23 **Source:** Waterbury Republican — PITTSBURGH, Pa.— one table during Thursday’s 160,000-member union was the Negotiators from five major talks, then adjourned to meet wage offer from General Tire. talks in one large group separately. which had been stepped from the Rubber Workers and federal Although RW officials have last offer of 40 cents … Read more
**Date:** 9-21-61 **Source:** Unknown — NAUGATUCK-Small negotiating teams from each of the five major rubber companies and the United Rubber Workers Union have been called for a special group meeting Thursday by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The federal government has evidently decided that a 62-day-old strike involving over 51,000 people constitutes a problem … Read more
**Date:** 3-21-61 **Source:** Uniroval — Uniroval (Continued from Page One) men to accompany Dawson to-day. The announcement of this meeting represents one of the more significant aspects of the talks, although observers were hesitant to say whether it meant a possible breakthrough in the negotiations. The meeting could go on for weeks, said a union … Read more
**Date:** 6-12-67 **Source:** Wall Street Journal — AKRON—After a week of marked progress in negotiations, the United Rubber Workers union and five major rubber companies will re-open bargaining sessions at 10 a.m. today with some expectation of reaching a single-package settlement covering wages, pensions and wel- fare benefits before another week passes. A settlement would … Read more
**Date:** 1967-06-09 **Source:** Naugatuck, Conn. — Naugatuck, Conn. Established 1885 FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1967 12 PAGES Price Seven Cents Companies Offer BULLETIN
**Date:** 3-31 **Source:** Unknown — Continued From Page 1 and life insurance and may contact headquarters if they have questions. A vote of confidence was requested and received for the union officials from the members present. Froehlich’s speech spelled out the fact that the union would negotiate until its terms are reached, but Froehlich mentioned … Read more
**Date:** 1967-05-27 **Source:** Unknown — NAUGATUCK An injunction sought by Uniroyal Chemical Friday against the United Rubber Workers was continued by Superior Court Judge Leo V. Gaffney. The continuance was ordered following an early morning session of peaceful picketing by Local 218 at the Elm St. entrance to the plant. All personnel seeking entry into … Read more
**Date:** 1967-05-27 **Source:** Unknown — United Rubber Workers Local 218 has been summoned to appear in Superior Court next week to show cause why an injunction should not be issued against illegal picketing in the month-old strike involving Naugatuck plants of Uniroyal, Inc. Judge Leo V. Gaffney, who issued the order, also expressed the hope … Read more
**Date:** 1967-05-25 **Source:** Unknown — Thursday May 25 1967 UniRoyal’s Chemical Division
**Date:** 1967-05-23 **Source:** Unknown — The new pastime in the borough is the guessing of when the strike will end. A more optimistic attitude has been adopted by the strikers and the consensus of opinion is that settlement is close. However, no statements on the progress of negotiations in Cincinnati have been issued. The negotiating … Read more
**Date:** 1967-05-18 **Source:** NAUGATUCK — Although Naugatuck Chemical plant manager John Evans said Wednesday that the company was “contemplating” shipping from the plant, the scene on the United Rubber Workers Local 218 picket lines remained quiet throughout the day. No shipments were reported. Evans said he had no comment to make following a meeting between … Read more
**Date:** 1967-05-16 **Source:** Waterbury Republican — NAUGATUCK – Around-the-clock picketing in the 26-day-old Uniroyal strike was halted at the footwear plant Monday and the original 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. schedule restored. Reason for the reduced schedule, officials of the 4,000-member Local 45, United Rubber Workers, said, was management assurance that no effort to move … Read more
**Date:** 1967-05-16 **Source:** Waterbury Republican — NAUGATUCK – Around-the-clock picketing in the 26-day-old Uniroyal strike was halted at Naugatuck the footwear plant Monday and the original 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. schedule restored. Reason for the reduced schedule, officials of the 4,000-member Local 45, United Rubber Workers, said, was management assurance that no effort to … Read more
**Date:** 9-6-7 **Source:** Unknown — Picketing remains quiet and orderly in the borough today as negotiations between the United Rubber Workers and UniRoyal continue in Cincinnati. Four trailer trucks and four U.S. Mail trucks entered and left the Warehouse on Elm St. yesterday afternoon without incident. Eleven other trucks approached the gates and the drivers … Read more
**Date:** 1967-05-09 **Source:** Waterbury Republican — NAUGATUCK–A barrage of trucking firm. The second truck to enter was from a New Haven firm, the Wilson Freight Co. The Elliott Bros. Trucking Co. firm Waterbury and the Lombard Bros., who rented a truck from a local dealer, also entered the gates. Most of those who turned away … Read more
**Date:** 59-9-7 **Source:** Unknown — THE FIRST OF EIGHT Trucks to enter the gate at the Warehouse on Elm St., yesterday afternoon prepares to leave as picketers move on. Four private trucks and four mail trucks passed in and out of this gate during the afternoon without incident. —(News photo by Piscitelli)
**Date:** 1967-05-06 **Source:** Unknown — 06720. Second Class Postage Paid at Waterbury, Conn.) TWENTY-TWO P
**Date:** 55/67 **Source:** Unknown — UNIROYAL PICKETS are booked in Naugatuck Police Station Thursday. — King Photo.
**Date:** 5-16 **Source:** Unknown — against each other, police and pickets in front of the Maple St. entrance of UniRoyal’s Footwear Division resulted in the arrest of 43 strikers this morning. In the foreground, a picket being hustled off to the Police Station by Police Officer Thomas Hunt, presumably to be booked for breach of … Read more
**Date:** 1967-05-04 **Source:** NAUGATUCK NEWS (Conn.) — PICKETS were outenmasse at the warehouse building on Rubber Ave. to ensure no one or nothing passed through the line Early in the morning several scuffles kept the policemen on their toes but no serious incidents were reported. —(News photo by Nichols)
**Date:** 1967-05-04 **Source:** Waterbury Republican — BRISTOL—Pickets appeared in front of the Uniroyal Inc. warehouse on Center St. Wednesday just after midnight, when it was learned that management was going to try to ship from the local warehouse. The pickets represent Local 45, United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of Bristol America, who have … Read more
**Date:** 3-31 **Source:** Unknown — Continued From Page 1 only to realize that they all hadn’t been arrested. Much time was spent trying to figure out who the four were that they had arrested. Some pickets rode to the station in police cars but hadn’t been arrested. They all wanted to be booked. One picket, … Read more
**Date:** 1967-04-25 **Source:** THE WORKER — THE MAY DAY slogans of ending the war and draft, independence for Puerto Rico and equality for black Americans are bringing youth into participation and planning for the celebration. A spokesman for the 21st May Day Planning committee announced that Jose Stevens, co-chairman of the New York area Du … Read more
**Date:** 1967-04-22 **Source:** MCDAY — The strike of United Rubber Workers against UniRoyal has now entered its 32nd day with picketing in the borough calm as white collar workers and trucks pass through the gates of the plant. The flurry of rumors of impending settlement that caused excitement in town last week has subsided and … Read more
**Date:** 6-10-‘7 **Source:** Unknown — United Rubber Worker President Peter Bommarito said the union’s demands are “logical, justifiable and attainable.” According to a UniRoyal spokesman yesterday, the URW’s demands would cost at least $1.40 an hour. The companies value their offers at more than 70 cents an hour. Bommarito said there are a number of … Read more
## Page 001 Here is the text extracted from the document image: Merry Christmas – Happy New Year CHEM-texts Vol. 1 PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL No. 3 QUALITY .. The Most Important Ingredient (One of the difficulties of modern industry is the loss of quality or pride of workmanship which is defined … Read more
## Page 001 CHEM-TEXTS Vol. 2 PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL No. 2. New Equipment for Reclaim Plant Will Keep Us in Reclaim Rubber Business Our present reclaimed rubber plant dates back to 1895, after fire destroyed the original plant in 1893. For 75 years, we have played an im- portant role in … Read more
## Page 003 Materials Department Saves Shoe Leather Supervisor Frank Lynch is shown below with the first bicycle recently acquired by the Materials department. The vehicle is saving considerable walking and enables the supervisors in the department to cover more ground in visiting the plant. Since this picture was taken, the department has received two … Read more
**Date:** 6 9 67 **Source:** Unknown — Continued From Page 1 4. Supplemental Unemployment Benefits – Regular benefits increased to 65% of average pay (plus $2 for up to four dependents, with a maximum payment of $50) to 75% of average pay. with no maximum. Short work week benefits increased in all cases to 75% … Read more
**Date:** 6/12-67 **Source:** Unknown — The five major rubber companies in the U.S. will consider a URW proposal today after two contracts which were proposed by the companies last week were rejected by the union. One source said the union counter-proposal is only slightly different from its original demand which, according to the companies, would … Read more
**Date:** 6-12-67 **Source:** Unknown — Raymond Mengacci Vice-President of Local 445, stated today he didn’t want to get into a debate with factory manager Mr. Jack Smith, or try to negotiate an agreement here in Naugattuck, especially through the newspapers, when both the Company and the Union committees are having a hard enough time in … Read more
**Date:** 12-67 **Source:** Unknown — Continued From Page 1 President Walter D, Baldwin’s wages were increased from $83,025 in 1965 to $113,395 in 1966 an increase of $30,370 or 36.6% in one year. The union is not saying that these men do not deserve this increase but if the Company wants to talk percentages, then … Read more
**Date:** 6-13-67 **Source:** Rubber Strike — AKRON, Ohio (UPI) — Negotiators in the national rubber strike today prepared for another long session over the problems of wages, contract length, the elimination of differentials in wage hikes, employes and job security. Three of the nation’s five largest rubber companies have been on strike for 54 days, … Read more
**Date:** June 13, 1967 **Source:** Conn. — Continued From Page 1 For the first time, the negotiators, at management’s request, were grappling with wages and all fringe benefits in one package. Traditionally, three-year welfare pension contracts and two-year wage contracts are negotiated separately. The welfare pension contracts do not expire until fall. Another improvement in … Read more
**Date:** 6-15-67 **Source:** Unknown — Governor John Dempsey acknowledged the letter received from the borough seeking his intervention in the UniRoyal strike affecting three borough plants. He said in a letter to Mayor Joseph C. Raitkwich, that State Labor Commissioner Renato E. Ricciuti is maintaining close contact with the progress of the negotiations, and that … Read more
