Muncie, IND.; News of Local 23, Hemingray stops using gas

MUNCIE, IND.

By Walt Claspell.

Conditions at the Hemingray Glass Co. remain abort the same. Shipping is still brisk with good prospects of it remaining that way. All the brothers are making good time. They all seem to want to make hay while the sun shines.

Mr. Hemingray promises to better conditions in the mould room and we hope he won't be long about it.

The gas situation is serious. The company has quit using it altogether, or at least until warmer weather promises better pressure.

We have experienced no shortage of soda ash as yet, but it keeps the company hustling to get its supply.

President Wm. Clarke was here and with Executive Herron and our conferee met with Mr. Hemingray the first of January. Mr. Hemingray spoke of having no stock and promised a shut-down of two weeks only next summer.

We are glad to see Brother Bernard Cummings back at his job once more. Brother Bernard had a very narrow escape from the graveyard, but after the surgeon cut his appendix out and starved him for about a week he got all right. The brother says he likes the hospital and the nurses all right (especially the nurses) but he don't like the soup they fed him on.

Brother Charles Knecht has a new son.

Brother Joe Love says that Brother Jimmie Arnold thinks himself a great jockey because he rides the nightmare. Joe and Jimmie attended the Star theatre. Jimmy got excited over an act where the girls wore only vest pocket tights. Jimmy got so excited he forgot his hat and started down the street trying to put a popcorn sack on his head. That night Jimmy was riding the nightmare and when his wife woke him up he was standing in the middle of the floor trying to pull his pillow slip over his head.

Brother Charles Swathwood is back from Lancaster. Ohio, and is working spare turns.