Hemingray Glass Company

Indiana's Great Glass Center.

MUNCIE, IND., Nov. 4. — The tank at Boldt glass works in this city broke Friday night and will cause the loss of several days' work. The management hope to repair the break and have the blowers at work again by the 6th inst.

The two large window factories here resumed operations on Friday morning, with good glass and in fine shape for a good run.

Ball Bros,' and Hemingray factories experienced some trouble the past week on account of the striking of the carrying in and mold boys, but are now operating as usual.

The glass business in Muncie is certainly in a flourishing condition, and I doubt if there are many cities in America that have a larger number of skilled glass workers employed. There are now in operation in this city window tank furnaces; Ball Bros. have five tanks on pressed bottles and jars and one tank on white liners; Hemingray's have one flint pot furnace and one large tank on bottles and insulators, and general flint ware; and the Boldt company, one nine-ring continuous tank on bottles, making a total of ten continuous tank furnaces and one pot furnace in operation.

Mr. Edgar Agard, of the G. B. B. A. Executive Board, has been in the vicinity the past two weeks looking after the interest of his association. — Fred Davis is home from Loogootee, Ind. — Gus Holmer, who has been working at Matthews, Inid., is now at the Boldt factory.

In a recent issue of the Independent magazine, of New York, appeared an article on "Strikes — Are They Ever Lost," by President D. A. Hayes, of the G. B. B. A., which is very instructive and encouraging to every trades unionist. The Muncie Star, commenting editorially on this article says: "Mr. Hayes will find many persons and thousands in the rank of organized labor, who differ with him as to the value of strikes to any cause, yet it must be conceded there is logic in the position he has taken.

Mr. Hayes is recognized as a leader who will not enter into a strike until every recourse has failed, and the result of his efforts in New Jersey and other places are good evidence that strikes will benefit the condition of workingmen when carried on under the law by an able leader, backed by a strong organization and against oppression and unjust conditions created by greedy employers, as the G. B. B. A. has not lost a strike since Mr. Hayes has been its president. — J. S.