Hemingray Glass Company

A Muncie, Ind., exchange, in commenting on the difficulty now being experienced by Indiana glass manufacturers in securing small help, says: "Manufacturers have resorted to every possible means to get boys to work for them. Formerly, when there were boys and to spare, the lads were paid from $3 to $3.50 a week. Under present conditions those that are at work are being paid from $3.50 to $7, and their employers would like to get more at the same prices. Work in the Muncie factories is being continually retarded by the scarcity of boy help. In the Muncie flint bottle factory 19 men now are at work where boys formerly were employed. They are being paid at the rate of $1.35 a day. In the Hemingray flint glass factory men are supplying the places of boys very generally. The Ball Bros.' fruit jar factory, employing 1,200 people is in the same condition as the others. In order to get the boys they have to remain steadily at work. This firm has adopted the policy of paying the lads on the night shifts for seven days' work, provided they will work six nights out of the week without running off."