The Flints are on Top; lockout has ended; Gillinder & Hemingray abandoned by Manufacturer's Association

THE FLINTS ARE ON TOP.

How the Lockout Ended in a Great

Victory

FIRST STRUGGLE WON THIS YEAR

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Which Brought to a . . . [illegible text] . . .

Termination the Hard-Wrought Contest of

the American Flint Glass Workers

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All at Work Again.

THE COMMONER AND GLASS WORKER told the truth last back when it said the flint strike was ended. It was ended in fact on Thursday afternoon but the announcement was not made until President Smith, of the American Flint Glass Worker's Union, had signed the agreement. On Saturday our readers got their paper giving the news and that evening the different unions were officially notified that their great struggle for their rights was won. It paused joy in many homes and wreathed the faces of all the workers with smiles. The victory was doubly glorious from the fact that in this year of unsuccessful struggles by labor to maintain it's own, the flint workers whose lockout begun with the first day of the year were the first to reap the fruits of their content.

How was it done, is now the question. Well, it is an interesting story and shows that up to the last the worker's officers never relaxed their vigilance and exhibited as much diplomacy as the manufacturers. We stated last week that the manufacturers met here Tuesday. They wanted another "conference" but Smith and Dillon had enough of that and refused to fool away a few more weeks conferring. Finding a conference could not be had the manufacturers concluded to talk it over with workers as individuals. That was satisfactory and the pipe of peace was smoked Wednesday. All the points of differences were gone over and successfully met by the manufacturers gracefully giving way. The first difficulty was Gillinder of Philadelphia, who has 14 non-union men at work. The union absolutely refused to work in his factory unless he would compel the non-union men to come into the union or discharge them. As Mr. Gillinder would do neither on or the other the manufacturers deserted him to stand alone and there he is to-day. He needs about 110 men to work his two furnaces when they are full and he will never get that many non-union men. He will either give in finally to the union or his name is Dennis. Hemingray, of Covington, Ky., had his case considered next. He is in the same predicament as Gillinder and was left to him fate by his brethren in the Manufacturers Association. He only has some 15 notorious blacksheep at work and as it requires about 40 men to run his factory properly, in all likelihood his fruit jar trade will suffer. Rule 7 was the next point at issue and it was easily overcome by the manufacturers to withdrawing it and conceding unconditionally all the workers asked for on the apprentice question. The next and last hitch was in the shade list where, on the 14 inch wide top dome the manufacturers wanted 72 pieces to the move and the men were only willing to give 66. Here a deadlock occurred and the talk ended by the workers declaring they would stay out till September rather than grant it.

When the workers got alone, Smith and Dillon concluded that as Gleason, of Brooklyn, was the sticker on 66, that one of them would quietly slip down East on a diplomatic tour. It fell to the lot of Secretary Dillon to go. At the train Wednesday evening he was surprised to meet Capt. Anderson, Jenkin Jones and Mr. Bryce of the manufacturers committee. The latter, after leaving the workers during the day, determined to slip down to New York also. It was a little diplomacy on their part as well and they were surprised to meet Dillon on the train. All went to New York where the manufacturers called on Mr. Gleason while Dillon quietly slipped around the hall of Union No. 1 and met the factory committee of the workers. he instructed them to demand the conference basis and 66 on wide top domes and when Gleason sent for the committee that afternoon, they told him what the must have. He gave them a letter to the union and Dillon was at the hall when it was read, practically granting their demand. Anderson, Jones and Bryce had lost track of Dillon and Gleason and had no idea that the secretary was with his men but as soon as his letter had been acted on, Dillon called on Gleason who said he accepted the conditions proposed. That ended the lockout, as all other differences had been settled.

Dillon telegraphed the result to Smith and then went among the other manufacturers in Brooklyn and arranged for the new list to take effect on Friday of this week. He fixed up a few inequalities while there, on some work raising the wages of the men 50 cents a day. On his way home he visited Philadelphia and arranged as to Mr. Gillinder's case. The latter, if he continues to hold out, will receive the concentrated attention of the entire union. Dillon was given a great reception by the Eastern men. He is a Brooklyn boy and unlike the prophet of old is honored in the house of his old friends.

President Smith got his congratulations from the boys in the West. Dillon's telegram caused him to affix his official signature to the agreement and the victory was complete. The trade has ratified the action of their committee in conference on all the . . . [illegible text] . . ., uniformly is obtained and the lockout is over.

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