National Association of Pressed and Blown Glassware

GLASS MEN MEET.

THE glass manufacturers independent of the United States Glass Co. have organized for their own protection as against the worker' organization making distinctions in favor of competitors in the same line of business. The following factories have signed the agreement of the new organization: Robinson Glass Co., Zanesville, O.; Model Glass Co., Albany, Ind.; Dalzell, Gilmore & Leighton Co., Findlay, O.; Rodefer Bros., Bellaire, O.; Crystal Glass Co., Bridgeport, O.; Buckeye Glass Co., Martin's Ferry, O.; McKee Bros., Jeannette, Pa.; Bryce, Higbee & Co., Homestead, Pa.; George Duncan's Sons & Co., Washington, Pa.; Greensburg Glass Co.; and Hemingray Glass Co., Muncie, Ind.

A meeting was held at the Monongahela House, Pittsburgh, on Thursday and Friday, November 16 and 17. The object was to take such action as would facilitate the reopening of the factories as soon as possible, and at the same time to prefect a new organization to take the place of that known as the Associated Glass Manufacturers, which was established at the time of the big strike several years ago, and had cognizance of the relations between the manufacturers and workers. The new association will be continued on the same general lines though with a new name. The following gentlemen were present: E. A. Gillinder, James E. Duncan, H. Sellers McKee, John G. Higbee, David W. Baird, of the Riverside Glass Works; Ed. Muhlman, of the Crystal Glass Co.; T. A. Rodefer; A. B. Seamon, of the Buckeye Glass Co.; L. B. Martin, of the Fostoria Glass Co.; A. L. Strasburger, of the Model Flint Glass Co.; and M. [sic] W. E. Evans, of the Hemingray Glass Co.

Mr. McKee was chosen chairman, and an organization effected as follows, to be known as the National Association of Pressed and Blown Glassware: president, H. Sellers McKee; vice-president, John B. Higbee; secretary, W. A. B. Dalzell; treasurer, Capt. E. Muhlman; executive committee, C. K. Bryce (of Bryce, Higbee & Co.), E. Muhlman, W. A. B. Dalzell, James E. Duncan, and T. A. Rodefer.

A conference was had with President Smith, of the glass workers' union, and it was agreed that the summer stop of six weeks should be made at any time between the first day of May and the first of September, as the manufacturers elect, and the limit as to the number of pieces made on some things was removed and a proposition made that they would again submit to a vote the abolition of the limit rule now enforced by the union of workers, with a recommendation that it be abolished. Upon these conditions the manufacturers agreed to start up. Some of the factories now running are in sympathy with this organization, but were not clear to sign just now. Its whole object is to secure equitable terms from the workmen, and it in no wise affects the Association of Flint and Lime Glass Manufacturers. The reports in the daily papers that this organization is to fight the United States Co. does injustice to the manufacturers, and is not based upon facts.