American Flint Glass Workers' Union - To Meet With Manufacturers Conference Committee in New York

GONE TO THE EAST.

Another Conference in the Flint

Glass Lockout

Dillon and Some of the Manufacturers

Conference Committee Now in New

York Trying to Arrange a Final

Settlement   —   More Factories Start

Up and the Fires Burning in the Others.

The home of operations in the flint glass lockout moved this week from Pittsburg to New York. On Wednesday evening, Secretary Dillon, of the Flint Glass Workers Union, together with John M. Bryce, Jenkin Jones and Capt. Anderson, of the manufacturers conference committee took the train for the East to meet in New York on Thursday of this week in an attempt to settle for the whole trade, the present lockout. President Smith, of the workers' union, was prevented from going by the serious illness of his children. The manufacturers has a meeting in Pittsburg on Tuesday, though just what the talked about or accomplished we are unable to say. We are not in their confidence, but rumor, backed up by pretty reliable authority, says that they decided to get the shade list fixed up to the satisfaction of Mr. Gleason and other Eastern members and, in fact, agreed to call the whole trouble off if this could be satisfactorily arranged. Just what bearing this question has on all of the trade is not quite plain, but it may be a very good way to let the lockout bare down easy. The meeting was called in the East immediately after the manufacturers adjourned and we hope that all matters will be amicably arranged there to the satisfaction of all concerned.

The news from the East this past week has been of a satisfactory nature. Gill & Co., Philadelphia get started on Monday of this week and Howes, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was to get started up on Thursday of this week. This leaves in Philadelphia but one factory idle, that of Gillinder's, and reduced the number idle in Brooklyn to three, eleven in all being at work there. We understand also that there are other factories which are ready to go to work, and will start up, settlement or no settlement. One of the questions of the hour is, What will become of Gillinder's non-union men in Philadelphia, and those Hemingray has put to work in Covington, Ky? Union men are not likely to go to work with them, and when the firms want to get started in earnest, their non-union shops will be found to be very much in the way.

In the West, at home and in the Ohio Valley the manufacturers have been waiting, keeping their fires burning. Is was expected, and in fact announced in some factories, that the men would be either put to work or the fires put out on Wednesday noon. The fires are still burning, and the expectation is the manufacturers in the West are waiting for the result of the meeting this week in New York.

Since writing the above we learn that Port Jervis, N.Y. factory and Concord street factory Brooklyn, will start up by next Monday. The idle workers in Pittsburg are smiling and many of them would not be surprised if the Western factories got started next Monday, or some of them at least.

LATER - Private advices from New York say that the differences in the shade list have been settled. The strike is practically ended.