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Uniroyal May Appeal Court Order

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Uniroyal 7-18-67

May Appeal

Court Order

NAUGATUCK — Uniroyal,
Inc. is considering an appeal to
the Connecticut Supreme Court
for a reversal of a restraining
order issued Monday against
production of sample shoes at
the company’s strikebound Foot-
wear Plant here.

An attorney for the firm said
this morning that a decision on
whether or not the company will
seek to have the injunction over-
turned will be made late today.

He said that even if the ap-
peal is filed it is not likely to be
heard by the high court until
mid-September. The injunction
would remain in force during
the interim.

The restraining order was is-
sued Monday by Superior Court
Judge Leo V. Gaffney on the re-
quest of Local 45 of the United
Rubber Workers Union.

The union claimed that prod-
uction of the footwear samples
by non-union employes violated
an agreement signed by the
company and the union April 18
three days before the current
strike began.

Judge Gaffney indicated he
was issuing the order in an ef-
fort to prevent a recurrence of
violence on picket lines, such as
occurred earlier in the strike
when the company attempted to
make shipments from the Maple
St. plant.

Negotiations in the 89-day old
strike were scheduled to resume
today, it was reported by Ray-
mond Mengacci, vice president
of Local 45.

No Appeal Scheduled By Uniroyal

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7-20-67

No Appeal Scheduled By Uniroyal

NAUGATUCK—Uniroyal, Inc., will not attempt to appeal to the State Supreme Court in an effort to overturn an injunction issued against the company Monday, an attorney for the firm said Wednesday.

In accepting the injunction, Uniroyal will not be able to produce sample shoes carried by salesmen.

Atty. Raymond E. Baldwin said Uniroyal officials agreed late Tuesday not to appeal the injunction which was handed down by Superior Court Judge Leo V. Gaffney at the request of Local 45 of the United Rubber Workers Union.

The order restrains the company from using non-union personnel for the production of sample footwear.

Meanwhile, B. F. Goodrich and General Tire prepared to call back 15,000 workers on the basis of tentative agreements reached Saturday.

Some 60,000 workers for Uniroyal, Goodyear and Firestone remain out of work as talks continue in the longest and largest strike in United Rubber Workers history.

Dear Sir:

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Dear Sir:

It was with amazement I read the letter in the newspaper about our Police force. I wonder if that woman thinks only UniRoyal union members pay their salaries. Did it ever occur to her that management personnel also pay their share of the Policemen’s salaries? So I should hope they have a right to be protected also. They didn’t vote to go on strike, so they have a human right to work How dare anyone force their will on these people?

It’s bad enough that I am a union member that didn’t vote to strike, but have no choice but to go along with the herd. Everyone I talk to agrees that a raise does no good because the prices go up. If a raise does us no good, think of what it does to the people that are trying to live on a pension. Remember that someday you will be trying to struggle along on a pension that stays the same while the prices keep going up because of union demands. Every two years, more and more, where will it all end? Think of what happened to Vickers in Waterbury and the newspaper in New York. I heard the editor of the paper say union demands do put them out of business.

No matter what we get we will never make up our loss. The union didn’t ask us if we wanted a raise. We aren’t even allowed to know what the issues are. That’s what happens when the union gets too strong. We don’t tell them anything, they tell us.

Why can’t they just reinstate the old contract instead of asking for more and more every two years.

Also, I don’t think it’s right to stop UniRoyal from shipping the shoes we already got paid good money to make, some of us even got time and a half.

Not long ago everyone was up in arms and wrote letters to Congress to cut down foreign made shoes, because we didn’t want UniRoyal to lose customers. Now where is the concern for the customers? Why cut your nose to spite your face? We will be the ones to suffer the big loss.

And it’s plain ridiculous to expect a layed-off employee to get 93% of their wages. Just who would be fool enough to want to sweat all day for a few dollars more than the guy sitting home on his backside. Everyone would fight to be layed off.

Please don’t print my name after seeing that unreasonable crowd the other day. I would probably get my house burned down. This is the only way to voice my opinion, which, I hope,

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Uniroyal Plea Stayed

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5-10-67

Uniroyal Plea Stayed

NAUGATUCK—Uniroyal officials agreed Tuesday to continue 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 will be no interference whatsoever with the (company’s) operations,” company attorney Dwight F. Fanton of Bridgeport said.

While Judge Gaffney spoke in Waterbury, picket teams at the borough remained quiet and small in number.

A repeat of Monday’s performance was staged again Tuesday when trucks were allowed to enter the warehouse on Elm St. without incident. Although the exact number of trucks approaching the gate were not known, it was learned that many drivers turned away, while some went through after contacting their dispatchers.

Five freight cars, shoved into the warehouse Friday, were still in the warehouse Tuesday, and it has not been learned when they are due to leave, although some thought they would be pulled out Tuesday.

Before giving court sanction to the continuance, Judge Gaffney warned the union that “In the event of any interference with the normal business of this company or any violence which would force the plaintiff into court to seek a restraining order…upon a showing of the evidence, I will issue such an order.”

The judge said that based on information he received during negotiations in chambers with company and union lawyers, “There is no doubt in my mind a case would have been established” supporting the issuance of an injunction.

He said he was “willing to go along” with the continuance in the hope that “good relations” which existed between the company and the union prior to the current strike “can be restored.”

The judge cautioned, however, that he will be available at any time, including Saturdays and Mondays when the court is not normally in session, to hear the case should the union violate terms of the agreement. “I will come from wherever I am and open court” he said.

He told the union that if it restricts the picket line “to a reasonable number of pickets, spaced properly, and there is no name calling, we won’t have any trouble here.”

He also warned that it is “incumbent upon the union to keep the…three or four agitators who are stirring up trouble…away from the picket line.” He said the names of the “agitators” are known to him and to union officials.

Although the Naugatuck operations have decided to continue their court petition, it was learned that injunctions have been granted to Uniroyal operations in Mishawaka, Ind., where there are 3,700 employes in one local. Injunctions have also been granted to two Uniroyal operations in Ohio and Alabama.

The injunction against Local 65 in Mishawaka was granted Friday when the company charged that pickets were interfering with office workers. Rumors that the National Guard had been called out in that town of 35,000 were denied by a local newspaper.

The injunction petition in Naugatuck was initiated by the company Friday after three days of clashes last week between pickets and police when

IN SOLID MASS, non-union employes of Uniroyal Footwear Plant in Naugatuck head for work at 7 a.m. today, after assembling on The Green, in background. Police halted the crowd and sent back to the Green. The company proposed that the women be sent home and the male employes be allowed through the picket lines, but the union rejected the idea. It was shortly after that that violence erupted again.—Coviello Photo.

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IN SOLID MASS, non-union employes of Uniroyal Footwear Plant in Naugatuck head for work at 7 a. m. today, after assembling on The Green, in background. Police halted the crowd and sent back to the Green. The company proposed that the women to be sent home and the male employes be allowed through the picket lines, but the union rejected the idea. It was shortly after that that violence erupted again.—Coviello Photo.

Union Goes On 12-Hour Schedule Of Picketing

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Union Goes On 12-Hour Schedule Of Picketing

16—Waterbury Republican, Tuesday, May 16, 1967

Joint Agreement

Union Goes On 12-Hour Schedule Of Picketing

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 move trucks in or out after 6 p.m. will be made.

The arrangement does not affect schedules at the chemical and synthetic plants where picketing continues around the clock.

Decision to reduce the picketing schedule at the footwear plant came after a three-hour meeting between the union and company officials Monday morning at which management also assured the union no attempts at footwear production would be made by supervisory personnel.

Local 45 spokesmen said rumors that such an effort would be made starting Monday had become so prevalent the meeting with management was deemed necessary to pin down the matter one way or the other.

Around-the-clock picketing began May 3 when reports reached the union that management intended to resume shipping. Two days of scuffling followed before the strike reached an even keel again.

Contract negotiations aimed at ending the strike are scheduled to resume at 10 a.m. today in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Union Goes On 12-Hour Schedule Of Picketing

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Union Goes On 12-Hour Schedule Of Picketing

16—Waterbury Republican, Tuesday, May 16, 1967

Joint Agreement

Union Goes On 12-Hour Schedule Of Picketing

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 move trucks in or out after 6 p.m. will be made.

The arrangement does not affect schedules at the chemical and synthetic plants where picketing continues around the clock.

Decision to reduce the picketing schedule at the footwear plant came after a three-hour meeting between the union and company officials Monday morning at which management also assured the union no attempts at footwear production would be made by supervisory personnel.

Local 45 spokesmen said rumors that such an effort would be made starting Monday had become so prevalent the meeting with management was deemed necessary to pin down the matter one way or the other.

Around-the-clock picketing began May 3 when reports reached the union that management intended to resume shipping. Two days of scuffling followed before the strike reached an even keel again.

Contract negotiations aimed at ending the strike are scheduled to resume at 10 a.m. today in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Meeting Here Lessens UniRoyal Strike Tensions

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Meeting Here Lessens UniRoyal Strike Tensions

Meeting Here Lessens UniRoyal Strike Tensions

Tuesday MAY 16, 1967 [handwritten]

A three-hour meeting yesterday morning between management and union of UniRoyal led to the lessening of mounting tension. Management assured the union no attempt at footwear production would be made by supervisory personnel.

Following the meeting, the union decided to reduce the hours of picketing back to the original schedule of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the footwear plants. The around-the-clock schedule of picketing at the Chemical and Synthetic plants will continue.

The meeting was called yesterday when management personnel began reporting at the plant an hour earlier than their normal schedule. Men were observed attired in casual clothes, indicating the rumor that production would begin held some vestige of truth.

Management also assured the Union officials that no efforts to move trucks in or out after 6 p.m. will be made.

Contract negotiations resumed this morning in Cincinnati following a weekend recess. The strike of United Rubber Workers is now in its 26th day.

Footwear Division Vacation Checks To Be Spent On Variety Of Things

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Footwear Division Vacation Checks To Be Spent On Variety Of Things

Footwear Division Vacation Checks To Be Spent On Variety Of Things

7-26-67 [handwritten]

By Cynthia Baran

Many UniRoyal Footwear Division employees will be spending this summer vacation on home grounds according to a survey taken of those on picket duty and those picking up their vacation pays in the past few days.

The answers are many and varied to the question: “What is the first thing you are going to buy with your vacation pay?”

By far the most frequent response was “Pay my bills,” but many admit they will at least take one or two-day trips.

One worker told us, “I’m not picking up my vacation check. I don’t really need the money because I’ve been doing odd jobs. I’ll leave it there until I go back to work and have to start paying bills again.”

Others are at a loss as to what to do with the money.

“There’s so many things that have to be done with that check, I don’t know where to begin.”

“My vacation pay is going to be stretched and restretched. I have bills galore.”

On the whole, UniRoyal employees are cheerful as they come to pick up their checks. Quite a few intend to have a good time with the money.

“I’m going to spend it at Green Mountain.”

Still others will attempt to hang on to the money for various reasons.

“I’m not going to buy anything. Why should I?”

“I’m putting it in the bank as fast as I can.”

“I’m saving it for Christmas.”

Local residents are thinking of taxes that are due this summer and said that their vacation pays would be used to pay property and car taxes.

Those informing us that they

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FRONT DOORS to many stores in the borough were jammed early this morning when they swung open at 9:30 to let in crowds of people in to take advantage of Vacation Sales Days here. Borough shoppers can be seen crowding around counters in this downtown store.
—(News photo by Baker)

“Samples” Made In Japan?

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"Samples" Made In Japan?

“Samples” Made In Japan?

7-18-67 [handwritten date]

A court injunction has been issued restraining UniRoyal, Inc. from resuming production of footwear at its strike-bound Naugatuck plant, thus enforcing an agreement between the company and the United Rubber Workers union which was signed before the current strike began.

The court has found for the union in this instance, partially on the ground that failure to restrain the company from resuming production would mean the loss of all confidence in the union . . . “its effectiveness as a bargaining unit will be destroyed and its control over its members will be lost, as well as any hope of restraining its members from acts of violence.”

The company cannot, as a result of the decision, produce samples of its new line of footwear for distribution through salesmen to potential buyers—which raises an interesting question.

If salesman cannot deliver samples, they will have nothing to sell. With nothing to sell, they are not going to be taking any orders. Without any orders, there isn’t going to be much work for the members of the United Rubber Workers when and if they finally get back to their jobs. It strikes us that this, too, might have a detrimental effect on the future of the union. A bargaining unit can be destroyed in more ways than one.

Has anyone on either side of the UniRoyal impasse attempted to reach a compromise on this matter of sample shoes? If the union will not allow the company to use supervisory help to produce the samples, might it not be logical for the URW to suggest that on a seniority basis a certain number of production workers would be allowed back to work to produce the vital samples?

From the company point of view, wouldn’t it be better to produce the samples now under any agreeable arrangement than to have no samples at all?

It would be of mutual benefit to both company and union if some arrangement could be worked out on this matter, without in any way affecting other issues in the current impasse.

Of course, UniRoyal could always go out into the open market and pick up “samples” with that “Made in Japan” label on them. There’s no shortage of those around.

After all, it’s generally accepted that the Japanese are pretty clever at copying American-made products of all kinds. Why not reverse the process?

Wants Fellow Rubber Workers To Help End The Strike

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7-13-67

Wants Fellow Rubber Workers To Help End The Strike

To the Editor of The Republican:

The time has come for us rubber workers to get together and let our bargaining negotiators in Cincinnati know that the strike is going on too long with no settlement in sight.

The money we workers lost will never be regained regardless of what the settlement will be. The longer the strike continues, the more we will lose. They talk about a fair and just settlement.

I don’t think it is fair and just for us workers who have to use our life’s savings after working so hard for it, and then go broke and in debt. Whoever is interested in getting back to work please send in a postcard to our Uniroyal

7-13-67

Letters To The Edit

negotiators in Cincinnati and ask them to get going for a quick settlement.

Give them seven days or we will take a vote to go back to work while they are negotiating, until a settlement is reached.

This way we will be earning wages and receive retroactive pay when the strike is over. This is plain common sense. Do it now. Enough time and money have been lost.

In my opinion the company is offering a fair and just settlement. I believe we should go back to work so that we could make sample footwear for the salesman to show to the buyers. This is to our own advantage and insures our jobs for the future.

I appeal to and urge every member to send in a postcard as soon as possible to Uniroyal negotiators in Cincinnati and let them know that we want to vote to go back to work and vote to accept the company offer.

ANTHONY ENSERO
Veteran worker of 31 years’ service
121 Tracy Ave.

Waterbury

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the Rubber Workers is interesting aside from his friendship with Peter Bommarito, URW president. The URW begins its new contract negotiations with the auto companies next Monday and Reuther has let it be known that a guaranteed annual wage, a key hurdle in the rubber talks, will be an agreement “must” in the auto bargaining.

Meanwhile, pressure on the companies to resume production is eased by the combination of high tire inventories, an estimated 50 per cent of the industry still at work, auto manufacturers’ switchover to 1968 models coming earlier than usual and the industry’s mutual assistance pact.

Consequently, the companies can be expected to remain firm on the basis of their latest contract offers, which they say rep-

resents additional employment costs in wages, fringe benefits, pensions and insurance of some 70 cents an hour over three years. But URW officials contend the offer, which they claim adds up to about 60 cents an hour, is inadequate.

Locally, the URW Local 45 and the UniRoyal footwear plant is awaiting the decision of Judge Leo V. Gaffney on the request for a restraining injunction to be issued against the Footwear plant. The Judge is expected to make his finding known sometime the latter part of the week.

The Footwear plant seeks to start production on some 45,000 pairs of sample shoes using non-bargaining personnel. The Local is blocking this move, bringing into court an agreement made between plant officials and the Local, April 18.

The Judge must find whether this agreement was in effect at the time the company sought

Uniroyal, URW to File Briefs In Union Injunction Request

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Uniroyal, URW to File Briefs In Union Injunction Request

Uniroyal, URW to File Briefs In Union Injunction Request

6-2-67 [handwritten date in top right corner]

Uniroyal and the striking United Rubber Workers have until Wednesday to file briefs arguing whether the company should be forbidden to make footwear samples at the Naugatuck plant during the strike.

Judge Leo V. Gaffney in Waterbury Superior Court yesterday set the Wednesday deadline, as he reserved decision on a union request for an injunction to halt the production of sample shoes.

The judge said he would rule on the injunction request by the end of next week.

The company has stopped production of sample shoes, pending the court’s decision.

Joseph Foley, picket captain of striking Local 45, testified yesterday that violence might result if supervisory personnel continued to produce shoe samples. He was supported by Raymond Mengacci, union vice president.

Jack M. Smith, manager of and Thomas J. Nelligan, industrial relations supervisor, said the company would suffer serious loss of business unless it continued to produce shoe samples. They said such business loss might force a reduction of employment.

“Show Cause” Hearing Scheduled Today

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Rubber Strike

6-27-67 (handwritten)

“Show Cause” Hearing Scheduled Today

UniRoyal management and officials of Local 45, United Rubber Workers Union (URW), were scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Waterbury today for a “show cause” hearing instigated by the union last week when it accused the rubber firm of violating a written agreement between the two parties.

Superior Court Judge Leo V. Gaffney called the hearing for today when union officials sought an injunction and restraining order to keep UniRoyal non-bargaining personnel from running production lines.

Union leaders said they had a written agreement with UniRoyal that in return for an “orderly shutdown” of the firm’s footwear division here in the event of a strike, UniRoyal promised not to engage in production in non-bargaining unit personnel.

The union charged last week that production was going on in the concern by management in violation of the agreement.

In court last week, Judge Gaffney said he would not hesitate to issue the injunction and restraining order against UniRoyal if the union could produce evidence that the firm violated the agreement following the court appearance.

It is expected that today’s hearing will be continued, placing the company and the union on similar grounds.

Earlier in the 60-plus-day-old strike, UniRoyal sought an injunction and restraining order against the union, charging mass picketing and violation of the law in keeping management from the plant.

In court appearances at that time, the court continued the matter as long as there was no more violation of the court’s instructions to the union not to hinder management from entering or leaving the UniRoyal plants.

AKRON, Ohio (UPI) — A busload of union members were hauled into court today when they refused to disband in violation of an injunction limiting pickets at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant.

The injunction against mass picketing was issued Monday by Summit County Judge Frank Harvey. His order limited pickets to two at each gate of the Firestone plant.

About 100 pickets, members of the United Rubber Workers, showed up at the plant this morning. Summit County Prosecutor James Barbuto and Major Alan Morrison, acting for Sheriff James Campbell, also appeared at the plant.

Barbuto read the injunction notice to the pickets and they were ordered to disband. When

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UniRoyal Summoned To Show Cause Hearing Tuesday

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Union Seeks Injunction

6-23-67

UniRoyal Summoned To Show Cause Hearing Tuesday

By Ruth Nichols

UniRoyal agreed yesterday in Waterbury Superior Court to stop production on footwear until a hearing is held next Tuesday at 11 a.m.

Judge Leo V. Gaffney signed an application submitted by Local 45 URW seeking a restraining injunction against UniRoyal yesterday afternoon.

Local 45 sought the injunction on the grounds that the company had violated an agreement signed by management on April 18 to the effect that no supervisory personnel would perform jobs normally done by bargaining personnel.

The company had notified the union that it intended to resume production yesterday morning.

Judge Gaffney said that if the company did not agree to stop production and return to the status of 6 p.m. June 21, he would take evidence yesterday afternoon and issue an injunction immediately, because the “exigencies of this situation are so grave.”

He also assured the union, through its counsel Daniel Baker, that he would be available all weekend, if the company failed to keep the agreement not to produce and it should be called to his attention.

The agreement that the union was using as a basis for its complaint had been signed three days prior to the strike. In it the union agreed to an orderly shut down of the plant in case of a strike.

A union official said yesterday that the union had lived up to this by keeping 185 men in the plant after the strike was called at midnight April 20 to see that the machinery was shut down in an orderly fashion.

Since the onset of the strike, the union has permitted electricians and maintenance men to work to maintain the plant.

The hearing yesterday afternoon was preceded by a lengthy consultation between the attorn-

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ey representing UniRoyal, J. Kenneth Bradley, of the Bridgeport firm of Pullman, Conley, Bradley and Reeves, the union attorney Baker and Judge Gaffney.

Raymond Mengacci, vice-president of Local 45, and Joseph DeCarlo and Anthony Mascola of the union’s negotiating team were in court yesterday. George Froehlich, president of the local, is in Pittsburgh attending the Federal mediation sessions.

T. Rex Behrman, industrial relations manager, and Thomas Nelligan, labor relations manager for the footwear plant, were in court to represent the company.

The Local has been conducting its picketing under the threat of a restraining injunction since the first part of May. After two days of turmoil, when union members sought to keep management from entering the plant, the company applied to Superior Court for an injunction.

Since that period the local has been conducting its picketing in an orderly fashion, allowing supervisory personnel

US Rubber Annual Report – 72nd Annual Report – Page 13

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Synthetic and Marvinol Expansion

In Painesville, Ohio, construction has started on a new facility for the manufacture of synthetic rubber. Initially, the plant will produce Paracril, our oil resistant synthetic, but eventually we expect to make other types of synthetic rubber there. At Painesville, we are also expanding our facilities to manufacture Marvinol polyvinyl chloride resins.

First Investment in Australia

U. S. Royal tires will be manufactured in Australia. The Company has purchased an interest in S. A. Rubber Holdings Limited, and to supplement these facilities a new tire plant will soon be built on a 100-acre site in Adelaide. This investment will also give us a potential base in Australia for the manufacture of an entire line of consumer and industrial rubber and plastic products.

Footwear in Spain

For the first time, we have made an investment in Spain. We have acquired a controlling interest in Samper, S.A., a well known Spanish shoe manufacturing company located in Elche. It produces rubber, leather and fabric footwear both for the Spanish domestic markets and for export.

Footwear Plant in Southeast

In Thomson, Ga. production of Keds footwear will soon start in a new plant. This new footwear plant permits us to serve the rapidly expanding footwear market in the southeastern states.

Expanded Royalite Plant

We are equipping a plant in Warsaw, Ind. to meet the rapidly growing demand for Expanded Royalite, our thermoplastic laminate that has been successfully used in the fabrication of travel trailers, engine covers, automotive hoods and fenders.

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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 no specific arguments or stumbling blocks that are keeping the footwear plants idle. He neglected to estimate how much longer the strike would last, but by indications from the Union and company alike, Naugatuck and its counterparts will remain strike victims for a while to come.

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plant during the evening hours
set off the mass picketing and
violence in the borough.

The union attorney then asked 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,
couldn’t the company in two
days, by using all its facilities, produce the necessary
number of sample shoes, which
was said to be 45,000 pairs.
Smith said, “Emphatically No”,
adding this would not be practical.

Ronald Hadley, model sales
manager, was called to the stand
to testify to the need for the
sample shoes.

Judge Gaffney stated that he
recognizes the fact that if the
strike is prolonged everybody
will be hurt. The union members and families are already
hurt.

The Judge said that he wants
to stop violence and is not interested in who is going to suffer
the most, union or company.

Nelligan was again called to
the stand to be questioned by
the union attorney as to the oral
agreement that no one enter
the plant after 6 p.m.

Nelligan said that he didn’t
expect anyone would enter the
plant after the normal working
hours. Under questioning he
said that approximately 30 or
40 persons had been brought into the plant the evening before
the first violence when the union
said it would not permit shipment.

Nelligan said, however, no
work was started before 8 a.m.
the following day. He said that
he believed that there was
around-the-clock picketing in
the earlier days of the strike
before he had had an informal
conversation with Mengacci.
Then picketing was only conducted between the hours of 6
a.m. and 6 p.m.

Mengacci was returned to the
stand on the request of the union
attorney to testify on whether
Smith stated at the May 15th
meeting that he would “honor the
agreement.” Mengacci said that
Smith had not made such a statement.

Judge Gaffney asked again
yesterday if a written notice had
been given the union that
the company did not consider
the agreement no longer in effect. He was told, no, that it was
merely an oral announcement.

Approximately a dozen Local
45 members were in court as
spectators to the afternoon session yesterday. They thought
possibly a ruling on the injunction would be announced at the
close of the hearing and were
disappointed that it will be
another week before the decision is reached.

Judge Gaffney reminded the
company and assured the union
that no production would be allowed at the footwear plant until
an announcement of the decision
on the restraining injunction
was made.

He said that he was anxious
to receive the briefs as soon
as possible in order to expedite the matter. The decision
is expected sometime near the
end of next week.

However, Judge Gaffney said
that he would not be hurt to find
the strike was settled first

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