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Vacation Pay Due Strikers In Naugatuck

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Vacation Pay Due Strikers In Naugatuck

NAUGATUCK — Striking employes of the Footwear Division of Uniroyal, Inc., will receive more than $2 million in vacation checks on Tuesday and Wednesday as the plant prepares for its scheduled three-week shutdown beginning Friday.

Footwear officials reminded those eligible that checks will be distributed on both days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Water Street gate.

As the employes prepare to go on vacation here, workers for the General Tire & Rubber Co. in Waco, Tex. ratified a new three-year contract Saturday between the company and the United Rubber Workers, AFL-CIO. Union members in General’s Akron plant previously approved the contract.

It was also announced here that regardless of the present contract negotiations, plans have been made to fulfill the scheedule of closing for the three weeks.

This policy has been set to provide vacations for the hundreds of management personnel including foremen, supervisors and office employes who have been on the job since the walkout on April 21.

It was pointed out that the vacation schedule is set up early in the winter with the approval of Local 45 officials. This procedure allows for a uniform shutdown during the first three weeks in August.

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

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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.
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for unemployment compensation during the vacation shutdown period should arrange to appear in person and obtain their shutdown form during this time.

Employes must present their plant identification badge in order to receive their form. Employes who have volunteered and have been notified to report for work during the three-week period of shutdown need not obtain this form.

Applications for supplementary unemployment benefits

900 Ready To Return To Work Immediately

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900 Ready To Return To Work Immediately

NAUGATUCK—In lieu of their upcoming three-week vacation, more than 900 employes at the Naugatuck Footwear Plant of Uniroyal, have signed up to go back to work as soon as possible.

Thomas Nelligan, labor relations manager for the Footwear Plant, said he has received hundreds of requests from workers who do not want to take their vacation but instead want to come back to work. The plant is scheduled to be shut down for a three-week vacation period beginning today.

However, Nelligan noted that only a few of the conveyors would be set up, and that only a small portion of the 900 would be called in.

He promised notification by Monday or Tuesday of next week for those who would be called in to work during the vacation period. He noted plans are still incomplete.

Two of the three locals at the company have announced meetings for membership ratification of the new contract.

Joseph Arbachauskas, vice president of Local 308, United Rubber Workers, announced today that a meeting for ratification of the new contract will be held by the membership Monday at 7 p.m. at the Portuguese Club, Rubber Ave.

Ratification by Local 45, Footwear plant, has been tentatively set for 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Naugatuck High School. Vice president Raymond Mengacci said he is awaiting approval of the Board of Education for the use of the school.

As of presstime, there has been no announcement from Local 218 as to when and where the ratification meeting for that local will take place.

Footwear Setting Up Work Units

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Footwear Setting Up Work Units

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NAUGATUCK—Although the annual vacation shutdown at Uniroyal began Friday, Footwear Plant officials are setting up several production units for employes available and willing to work during the shutdown.

It was announced Friday that available employes should contact the Industrial Relations Department if they have not already signed up for work and wish to do so.

Mass shutdown forms will be distributed today at the Water St. entrance from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Employes eligible for unemployment compensation during this shutdown should arrange to appear in person to obtain the forms. Identification badges will be required.

Employes who have volunteered and have been notified to report for work during the vacation need not obtain the form.

Applications for supplementary unemployment benefits may be obtained at the same time the shutdown forms are obtained.

Two Locals Ratify UniRoyal-URW Master Contract; Third Due Tonight

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Two Locals Ratify UniRoyal-URW Master Contract; Third Due Tonight

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SURE-FIRE evidence of the end of the long UniRoyal strike | spaces on Water St. are now filling up more and more as work-
can be seen throughout the borough. Long empty parking | ers return to their jobs. —(News Photo by Baker)

Two Locals Ratify UniRoyal-URW Master Contract; Third Due Tonight

Vacationers Head For The Hills

Vacation time – a time when creatures from the land of steady habits undergo a metamorphosis and become camera-slung tourists, headed for all points of the compass.

Determined to have fun, they take to the highways and byways laden with all sorts of equipment; campers, boats, fly-rods and bicycles, and fun is what they usually find.

Of course there are minor irritations – the endless procession of suitcases crammed with things some member of the family just “had” to have, the bumper-to-bumper traffic in 90-degree heat and the kids em-

broiled in a free-for-all, but somehow, arriving at the vacation destination erases it all.

For some, lakes and rivers provide the ultimate in entertainment whether it be in the next town or the next country. Others find world travel more to their liking.

Group travel has grown in popularity within the past few years offering the vacationer more for less. Business or clubs arrange tours for employes or members at somewhat reduced rates thereby offering the individual a better vacation than he might otherwise have been able to afford.

UniRoyal has offered its employes several of these vacation trips in past years and this year has planned three trips to Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas.

More than 160 employes will leave Kennedy Air Port Monday for two weeks, jetting across the ocean to their island in the sun.

Wherever the vacationer goes, here or abroad, for a weekend or a week, it’s all a part of the good life. It offers a change from the ordinary, a chance to soak up the sun and let the fresh air blow away the mental cobwebs.

Two of the three United Rubber Workers locals in Naugatuck have voted to ratify the master contract with UniRoyal. Local 308, Synthetic Division, is also expected to ratify the contract at a 7 o’clock meeting tonight.

Local 45, Footwear Division, voted unanimously Saturday afternoon to ratify, becoming the first Naugatuck local to do so.

Local 218, Chemical Division, held a voting session Sunday with only about 125 of its 725 members present. It is speculated that the small turnout is a result of many workers being away on vacation.

Several Local 218 members expressed annoyance at having to wait 45 days to begin negotiations on the local supplemental contract.

As the URW locals vote to ratify the master contract, UniRoyal is putting out the call for volunteers to work during vacation. A UniRoyal official said today that about 600 workers have already been placed but

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would go on a two or three-week vacation said their spouses worked elsewhere and that they had no, few or grown-up children.”

Another question asked the employees was: “Will you sign up to work during vacation if the strike ends?”

Most employees are as yet undecided, preferring to wait to see the turn of events concerning settlement of the strike.

One gentleman quipped, “Are you kidding?” This left us wondering whether he would or he wouldn’t.

A lady complained, “Yes I will. I’m not going on vacation. I’m sick of it.”

Another contradicted this saying, “No. This is my vacation and I’m going to enjoy it.”

From all indications, it looks like the annual mass exodus from the borough will not occur this summer. Perhaps sewing circles and neighborhood gatherings will come into vogue again before the end of the strike.