**Date:** 5-9-67
**Source:** BEACON FALLS
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Union officials and volunteer workers were busy in Naugatuck today distributing benefit checks to members of three union locals on strike against Uniroyal.
Lines were orderly at headquarters of Locals 45, 218 and 308, United Rubber Workers of America. The workers have been on strike since April 21 against Uniroyal plants in Naugatuck and Beacon Falls.
Eight trucks yesterday afternoon passed without incident through picket lines at the Elm Street gate of Uniroyal’s Naugatuck plant. Four were United States mail trucks.
Drivers of 11 other trucks turned back, refusing to cross the picket line.
Pickets made way for drivers who insisted on entering the plant. There were catcalls from the pickets, but no violence.
Naugatuck police patrols, under Capt. Joseph Summa, were at the scene.
In Beacon Falls, a detail of State Police under Sgt. James Ferguson of the Bethany Barracks stood by as trucks entered and left. There was no disturbance and no jeering from the pickets.
Pickets at Naugatuck and Beacon Falls had been ordered by Raymond Mangacci, a union vice president, to avoid violence.
Five railroad freight cars that entered the central warehouse in Naugatuck Friday were still inside the plant today.
Thomas J. Nelligan, a Uniroyal spokesman, said the cars would be moved out when loaded.
The company plans to continue shipments by truck and rail, Nelligan said.
The calm that has prevailed this week contrasts with the near-riots of last Thursday and Friday, when 64 strikers were arrested.