Shy of Workmen, Boy strike at Hemingray mentioned

SHY OF WORKMEN

ABOUT A HALF FORCE IN

WINDOW PLANTS.

Report of Workingmen’s Library

Will Show Large Number of

Readers During October.

THE BOY STRIKE AT HEMINGRAY’S

MUNCIE IRON WORKERS LEAVE

FOR TERRE HAUTE.

Attempt Being Made to Organize

Employes at Meeks' Handle Factory

— Other Labor News.

But few more than half the shops in the local factories of the American Window Glass company are in operation, owing to a scarcity of working-men. What is true of Muncie is equally true of all other factories in the Indiana gas belt. Men are scheduled to arrive from other places to take positions but when all are accounted for it is said that not more than two-thirds of the shops in the Muncie fac­tories will be in operation.

The reason assigned for this short­age is that the men deserted the trust plants for the co-operative factories. They find more work with a conse­quent increase in earnings. A great many are stockholders in the co-opera­tive concerns. The situation is said to be a discouraging one for the Amer­ican. Not that there is any great de­mand for glass just now, but there is little prospect of a betterment in con­ditions later when the ware may be needed. The scare which was recently made in regard to a further postponement of the start by the American caused a great many of their men to desert.