1967

**Date:** 5-7-67 **Source:** Unknown — PICKET HAULED AWAY — One of 21 pickets at Uniroyal Footwear Division plant in Naugatuck arrested for breach of peace Friday in second day of strike for refusal to allow non-union employes into plant is dragged up street to nearby police headquarters.

**Date:** 5-8-67 **Source:** Unknown — Peaceful picketing was conducted at the gates of all UniRoyal plants this morning as negotiations on the UniRoyal master contracts resumed in Cincinnati. After Thursday and Friday mornings near-riot conditions on Maple St., management of UniRoyal went into Waterbury Superior Court Friday afternoon seeking a restraining order. Judge Leo V. … Read more

**Date:** 5-6-67 **Source:** Unknown — Akron, O.—The Rubber Workers, on strike against three of the Big 4 rubber companies at 39 plants in 36 cities, have a bargaining program that is “realistic, logical and attainable” and the union will continue to fight to get it, URW Pres. Peter Bommarito said here. Contract talks continued as … Read more

**Date:** 5-10-67 **Source:** Unknown — NAUGATUCK-Uniroyal officials agreed Tuesday to continue to issue for two weeks their Superior Court petition for an injunction against the United Rubber Workers Union to restrain mass picketing at the strike-bound footwear plant here. The company accepted the agreement suggested by Judge Leo V. Gaffney “with the understanding that there … Read more

**Date:** 5-10-67 **Source:** Unknown — WATERBURY — Superior Court Judge Leo Gaffney yesterday continued for two weeks a ‘show cause’order issued last Friday to the United Rubber Workers Union in response to a petition for a temporary injunction and restraining order by UniRoyal, Inc. Citing the good progress made since last Friday’s flare-ups in Naugatuck, … Read more

**Date:** 5-11-67 **Source:** Unknown — Striking UniRoyal employes are feeling the pinch as they face the second palyess week. The strike will enter its fourth week as of midnight tonight. Waterbury Welfare Director Peter Pocius said yesterday his department had received about 100 applications from strikers residing in that city. Of the 100 applications, about … Read more

**Date:** 5-11-67 **Source:** Unknown — NAUGATUCK–Picketing the three strikebound Uniroyal plants in the borough continues to be quiet and, for the third straight day, striking United Rubber Workers allowed trucks to pass through the warehouse gates on Elm St. without incident. Although a word from the picket team captains discouraged five trucks from entering the … Read more

**Date:** 5-11-67 **Source:** Unknown — NAUGATUCK—For the third straight day striking United Rubber Workers allowed trucks to pass through the gates at the Uniroyal Elm St. warehouse without incident. Although a word from the picket team captains discouraged five trucks from entering the gates, eight passed through as strikers moved aside. It was noted that … Read more

**Date:** 5-22-67 **Source:** Unknown — NAUGATUCK–Although ru- In the borough, pickets contin- mors ran rampant throughout ued in a peaceful vein, permit- the borough Thursday to the ef- ting trucks to enter and leave fect that B. F. Goodrich Rubber the gates. The procedure was Co. was approaching settlement the same as has been observed … Read more

**Date:** 5/13/67 **Source:** Unknown — Negotiations Recess Until Tuesday A.M. Negotiating sessions in Ohio between UniRoyal, Inc., and the United Rubber Workers (URW) were recessed at noon yesterday and won’t resume until Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock, it was reported here last night. Meanwhile, quiet picketing is still going on in the borough and there … Read more

**Date:** May 5, 1967 **Source:** Unknown — Fighting breaks out at Maple Street entrance to Uniroyal plant. By JAMES FLEMING Register Staff Reporter MAUGATUCK — Fighting broke out at the Maple Street plant of Uniroyal for the second day in a row, and 21 employees were arrested. Fifty were arrested Thursday. It was later learned … Read more

**Date:** 6-9-61 **Source:** Unknown — plant during the evening hours set off the mass picketing and violence the boroughs. The union attorney then asked that Smith how many shoes were normally produced in the plant a day, to which Smith answered 120,000. Baker then asked if, after the strike is settled, could the company in … Read more