Muncie, IND.; News of Local 23, Hemingray baseball team in first place

MUNCIE, IND.

By Walt Claspell.

The Hemingray Glass Company is badly handicapped on account of small help. The men work three eight-hour shifts while the boys work two twelve-hour shifts. It is the long hours the boys object to and I for one don't blame them. No man likes to work twelve hours and no boy is going to work twelve hours if he can get a job where he can work less.

The company has had one of the most profitable runs this fire that it has had for the last six or eight years and they are still shipping far above the average for this time of the year. Their stocks are almost exhausted. In some lines of ware they haven't an insulator and not much chance of getting them made at present with no small help. They have no stock to speak of and part of what they have is sold.

The men have cussed and discussed the situation, but there seems to be no help for the way things are.

All the brothers are disgusted, some of them are busted, myself included. Some have drawn their cards and gone elsewhere, some more would go if shoe leather wasn't so high. They haven't made enough money in the last few hot weeks to pay car fare. Some have taken laboring jobs in preference to their jobs because they can only get from one to three and one-half days a week at the latter. Laboring jobs are plentiful now at wages above the average and some of the brothers want to "make hay while the sun shines."

Brother Charles Patterson has decided to become a farmer and is working on a farm with his father.

Brother Arlie Jester wants to be a cowboy so he got a job herding sheep on a cattle ranch in Morrel, Nebraska.

Brothers Mike Carmichael and Joe Love tried to bust up the Saturday Afternoon League baseball game July 15 by knocking the balls over the fence into the cornfield. The team made four home runs and so many triples and two-baggers that the scorekeeper and manager, Brother Hickman, forgot how many there were and couldn't put them on the score card. The team is in first position (of the second division).

Brother Clifford Jetmore got a job writing insurance. He says the job is all (write) right.