**Date:** 1967-05-16
**Source:** Waterbury Republican
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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 had prompted the union to request the return to the original schedule.
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 ending the strike are scheduled to resume at 10 a.m. today in Cincinnati, Ohio.