**Date:** 7-12-62
**Source:** SEYMOUR
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The United Rubber Workers’ union said yesterday that Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. might become the fifth of the rubber industry’s big five producers to be struck if progress was not made in negotiations by midnight tomorrow.
If Goodyear is struck, 21,000 more rubber workers will be out of jobs, making a total of 76,000 union members idled.
The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Uniroyal, Inc., and Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co. were struck June 21. Goodyear has been operating on a day-to-day basis.
The union charged that Goodyear has failed to bargain in good faith. Uniroyal has plants in Beacon Falls and Naugatuck.