**Date:** 7-11-67
**Source:** Unknown
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — United Rubber Workers sources said Monday that 21,000 employes at 11 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plants are set to join the rubber strike at midnight Wednesday.
The announcement said the workers would walk out unless there is significant progress in negotiations which resumed Monday in Cincinnati.
Goodyear is the only member of the nation’s big five rubber companies still working in the strike which began April 2 against Firestone, Uniroyal, and Goodrich. General Tire & Rubber was struck three weeks ago.
The statement followed a vote of confidence to the URW bargaining team by Local 2 at Goodyear here.
John Nardella, president of Local 12 said the vote was taken “in case some other course of action should become necessary within the next few weeks.” Nardella said none-economic issues in the strike had been settled by Friday.
So far, the strike has idled more than 52,000 rubber workers.