[Newspaper]
Publication: The Chattanooga Daily Times
Chattanooga, TN, United States
p. 1, col. 6
THE GLASS TRADE.
Several Branches to Open Up — Window
Glass Men to Strike.
PITTSBURG, PA., Aug. 31. — There is now every probability that all branches of the glass industry will resume work without any trouble, excepting the window glass workers. Already a majority of the local firms and others near Pittsburg have arrangements to start tomorrow. All trouble between the bottle-ware and prescription glass manufacturers and their employes has been settled and the factories will resume operations tomorrow after their usual summer suspension. The tableware branch will also start up on Thursday, although the wages scale has not yet been arranged. A conference of manufacturers and workmen is now in session. Pending a settlement, the employes have agreed to resume work. The window glass manufacturers and their employes have still a wide breach between them, and neither side professes to have any idea as to when work will be resumed. The employes want 10 per cent. advance, which the manufacturers refuse to grant. The latter assert that they would prefer to remain idle for a year rather than pay the advance demanded. The strike which will be inaugurated tomorrow will throw several thousand men out of employment.
