The Pressers League; Green Glass Bottle Blowers Association place union men in jar lid shop at Hemingray's Muncie plant

THE PRESSER'S LEAGUE

Editor: The Commoner and Glass Worker.

I HAVE JUST ARRIVED HOME FROM a tour through the West, and I am very happy to inform you that the press trade never looked brighter since the promulgation of our Union. With the insistence of Master Workman Arrington of District Assembly 143, Green Glass Blowers, K. of L., I was able to secure various places in the West, and am happy to inform you that I cannot use strong enough language in praise of the members of various locals of Green Glass Blowers' Assemblies of the West for the kindness they have shown me. The first place I visited was Hemingray's at Muncie, Ind., and I was very successful. His order is about 15,000 gross lids a year. He has taken these from the flint house and given me the order to make for our Union, and I propose to make it a success. Hemingray is going to build a small furnace in which to make lids a specialty. We have promised that we will send skilled workmen there, men who understand their business, and I propose to carry out the agreement to the letter. I also visited Ball Bros., at the same place (Muncie), and I was also successful there. I have sent them two men who can blow until they are ready for the press season to open. Then I am to send them four more pressmen, which will make six in all, and they will have six gathering boys, which will make twelve in all at Ball Bros., and four pressmen with their four gathering boys at Hemingray's, which will make a total of twenty men I have secured employment for at Muncie, Ind. We also expect to have six men at E. H. Everett's, Newark, O., working at the press trade. I also visited Lazearville, W., Va., for the purpose of organizing the men at this place, but I find they are not skilled workmen. I left them alone for the present. We also started here at the Hero Fruit Jar Company with more pressers than every before. We have 36 of our men at work there. The works have a capacity of between 500 and 600 gross per day of green and white lids. The place our men were working at two years ago and were compelled to strike, we have every reason to believe will come straight this year. I had an interview with the manufacturer the other day, and he gave me every reason to believe that things would be settled satisfactorily. The place I refer to is Grange Bros., Birdsboro, Pa. The pressing that is done at Scranton, Pa., is all done by members of our Union. The works will start on the 3d of this month; also Yale Bros., Montreal, Cana., which starts the 10th of this month. We will have men working at Clyde, N.Y., as well. So you can see, with the aid of Master Workman Coffey, of District Assembly 149, Green Glass Blowers, K. of L., and Master Workman Arrington of District Assembly 143, Green Glass Blowers, K. of L., that our prospects look brighter than ever in the history of our trade, and I am very proud to inform you that by the 15th of October we will not have an idle member that belongs to our organization. Yours Truly,

Lancole Hart,

President of the Green Glass Pressers Union

of North America

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Sept. 2