**Date:** 82nd Year, Number 175
**Source:** Naugatuck
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The day that Naugatuck– and the whole Naugatuck Valley for that matter — has been waiting for has arrived.
The United Rubber Workers strike against UniRoyal has been settled, and within a few days the wheels should be turning once again almost as though they never had stopped.
Yet, unfortunately, there are scars left. It will be a long time before some people stop hurting. It is always so in every prolonged strike.
It is for that reason that we have never been able to condone strike action except as an utter last resort in a situation where injustice has made itself readily apparent. And this particular combination of circumstances is seldom to be found in these modern industrial times.
But never mind all of that now. Things are in the process of returning to something called “normal,” and for this the whole community can be happy.
It is perhaps enough at this point to recall that with the exception of some relatively minor incidents in the first few days of the strike, both labor and management showed commendable judgment in their corporate and individual behavior.
We have no deep, unhealing scars to fester and poison.
Now it is important that every man and woman get back into the swing of things; that differences be forgotten and that every effort be made to profit by the unfortunate strike experience.
We have had a strike. Now it’s over, let’s forget about it and work together once again.
That’s the way bigger and better communities are built.