Flint glass strike, Hemingray mentioned

THE FLINT GLASS STRIKE.

The Few Factories which are not included.

The ignorance of the Pittsburgh press concerning the nail situation is only ex­ceeded by its ignorance concerning the glass strike. The report was gravely sent out from there day before yesterday that the eastern flint glass manufacturers had concluded to join with those of the West in enforcing the new rules and scale. Last night the following came to hand:

PITTSBURGH, PA., Dec. 30. — The officials of the American Flint Glass Workers’ Union are patiently waiting the outcome of the trouble in the Eastern factories. On January 2 the present scale there will expire and the men will demand the same scale for next year. The manufacturers, one and all, have refused to sign any scale at all, which would not open the factories to non-union workmen as well as the union men. Altogether there are about eight hundred members in the union involved which will affect about one thousand more indirectly. Should the strike occur, it will give the national officers of the union considerable more work. They will have to pay about $15,000 weekly out of the strike fund to the workers.

There are no indications of a settlement of the strike of the Western flint glass workers. Both sides are firm and a protracted struggle expected.

The truth is that at the time the new rules and scale were adopted a new or­ganization was forced, called the Ameri­can Flint Glass Manufacturers’ Associa­tion, composed of the eastern and west­ern manufacturers, one of the most solemn agreements of which was that all would stand firmly together until three-fourths of the members voted to modify or rescind their action. The names of all these manufacturers, who are scattered from Massachusetts to Covington, Ky., and number about fifty, were printed in the INTELLIGENCER at the time. The fac­tories not included are much lees numerous; they are: The Fostoria, Ohio, works, new and just started, the Brilliant works, just started by its new owners, the Canton, Ohio, works, the Buckeye, at Martin's Ferry, making shades almost exclusively now, the Columbia, at Findlay, the co­operative, at Beaver Falls, and the Beaver Falls, and the Windsor, at Homestead. Besides these there is the Lantern Globe Works, at Bellaire, which does not com­pete with table ware factories, and three non-union factories — the Riverside, at Wellsburg, the Rochester Tumbler Works, and the new factory at Washington, Pa.

The chimney factories of Pittsburgh wanted a new scale to go into effect Feb­ruary 1, in which case they agreed to join. This was rejected. There are but seven chimney factories, all in Pittsburgh or this section, which are not in the list, and they may come in. At their last meeting the vote was three for the new scale to four against.

The Central Glass Works will have all the metal worked out of its pots to-day at noon, and will then shut down till the strike is settled. The eastern chimney men have enlisted for the war; also Hemingwray [sic] Hemingray & Co. of Covington, Ky., whose principal output is lamps. Those eastern factories now running will all shut down not later than January 2, when the new rules and scale go into effect. This is a comprehensive and correct statement of the manufacturers’ situation.