**Date:** 7-25-67
**Source:** Unknown
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NAUGATUCK — Striking employes of the Footwear Division of Uniroyal, Inc., will receive more than $2 million in vacation checks on Tuesday and Wednesday as the plant prepares for its scheduled three-week shutdown beginning Friday.
Footwear officials reminded those eligible that checks will be distributed on both days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Water Street gate.
As the employes prepare to go on vacation here, workers for the General Tire & Rubber Co. in Waco, Tex. ratified a new three-year contract Saturday between the company and the United Rubber Workers, AFL-CIO. Union members in General’s Akron plant previously approved the contract.
It was also announced here that regardless of the present contract negotiations, plans have been made to fulfill the schedule of closing for the three weeks.
This policy has been set to provide vacations for the hundreds of management personnel including foremen, supervisors and office employes who have been on the job since the walkout on April 21.
It was pointed out that the vacation schedule is set up early in the winter with the approval of Local 45 officials. This procedure allows for a uniform shutdown during the first three weeks in August.