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NAUGATUCK–It was reported Wednesday that United Rubber Workers Local 218 armed its negotiators Tuesday with authority to call a strike should contract negotiations with Uniroyal management fail to produce an agreement by the contract expiration date.
Negotiations opened Tuesday in Cincinnati, with the three local Rubber Workers Union representatives at the conference. The present contract, signed in June, 1965, expires April 20.
A spokesman said the local, representing workers at the Naugatuck Chemical Division, approved the strike vote by a vote of 490 to 70.