**Date:** 6-23-67
**Source:** Union Seeks Injunction
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UniRoyal agreed yesterday in Waterbury Superior Court to stop production on footwear until a hearing is held next Tuesday at 11 a.m.
Judge Leo V. Gaffney signed an application submitted by Local 45 UJW seeking a restraining injunction against UniRoyal yesterday afternoon.
Local 45 sought the injunction on the grounds that the company had violated an agreement signed by management on April 18 to the effect that no supervisory personnel would perform jobs normally done by bargaining personnel.
The company had notified the union that it intended to resume production yesterday morning. Judge Gaffney said that if the company did not agree to stop production and return to the status of 6 p.m. June 21, he would take evidence yesterday afternoon and issue an injunction immediately, because the “exigencies of this situation are so grave.”
Raymond Mengacci, vice-president of Local 45, and Joseph DeCarlo and Anthony Mascola of the union’s negotiating team were in court yesterday. George Froehlich, president of the local, is in Pittsburgh attending the Federal mediation sessions.
T. Rex Behrman, industrial relations manager, and Thomas Nelligan, labor relations manager for the footwear plant, were in court to represent the company.
The Local has been conducting its picketing under the threat of a restraining injunction since the first part of May. After two days of turmoil, when union members sought to keep management from entering the plant, the company applied to Superior Court for an injunction.
Since that period the local has been conducting its picketing in an orderly fashion, allowing supervisory personnel to enter the plant.
He also assured the union, through its counsel, Daniel Baker, that he would be available all weekend, if the company failed to keep the agreement not to produce and it should be called to his attention.
The agreement that the union was using as a basis for its complaint had been signed three days prior to the strike. In it the union agreed to an orderly shut down of the plant in case of a strike.
A union official said yesterday that the union had lived up to this by keeping 185 men in the plant after the strike was called at midnight April 20 to see that the machinery was shut down in an orderly fashion. Since the onset of the strike, the union has permitted electricians and maintenance men to work to maintain the plant.
The hearing yesterday afternoon was preceded by a lengthy consultation between the attorney.