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Union Told To Stop Blocking Operations
Dr. Bingham Resigns Post
Dr. Harold J. Bingham, who was assigned to studying the state’s educational needs, resigned Friday as executive secretary to the Board of Trustees of State Colleges.
Dr. Bingham, who was stripped of his powers of fiscal independence after the Waterbury newspapers disclosed he had hired landscape architects to do a statewide survey of education needs, fired a blast at the trustees as he departed his post, charging them with trying to ‘buy his resignation.’
Proclaiming he is ‘not for sale,’ Dr. Bingham charged that he’d been offered ‘a deal’ at a cost of $6,000 to the taxpayers of Connecticut.
The deal, he said at a news conference in Hartford Friday, consisted of reassignment as a state college history professor at top salary for the job; leave of absence with pay, ‘i repeat with pay,’ until Sept. 1; and $500 travel expense.
‘Ladies and gentlemen of Connecticut,’ said Dr. Bingham, ‘Gov. John Dempsey members of the administration and members of the board of trustees, I am not for sale.’
NAUGATUCK–The United Rubber Workers Union has been warned to refrain from any violence or from interfering in any way with operations of Uniroyal’s footwear plant here pending a court hearing Tuesday on an injunction petition against mass picketing.
The warning was issued in stern tones by Superior Court Judge Leo V. Gaffney Friday after three hours of fruitless negotiations with company and union representatives in an attempt to reach an out-of-court agreement to limit picketing at the strike-bound plant.
Only hours after the injunction hearing, a group consisting of Mayor Joseph C. Raytkwich, Chief of Police Frank J. Mariano, Police Commissioners Henry Marlon and William Simmons and representatives of the union gathered in the mayor’s office. Following the session, which lasted almost two hours, during which loud voices could be heard from behind the closed door, the group emerged and union officials reportedly told newsmen they would not resign from their posts.
Rado Not Resigning From Post
NAUGATUCK–William C. Rado isn’t resigning after all, as a member of the Board of Education, he said Friday night.
Rado had told a reporter earlier that he was resigning, but he said Friday night he had changed his mind.