Muncie, IND.; News of Local 23, Hemingray has a good year, will run tank all year

MUNCIE, IND.

By Walt Claspell.

Lack of small help at the Hemingray Glass Co. is causing the brothers to loss quite a few turns, and if not overcome some way will no doubt be the cause of at least one tank shutting down and that soon.

The company has experienced a good year and it looks as though one tank would work all summer. One tank is being fixed now for natural gas. The company is also laying in an extra large supply of coal so as to be ready for an emergency in the line of fuel.

The members of Local Union No. 23, as well as Trades Council, believe that the early bird gets the worm, so we are now getting ready for a Labor Day celebration. Perhaps, brothers, you think it rather early to begin getting ready for Labor Day, but time slips by so fast we hardly notice it, especially when one has to figure how to pay the grocery man and the coal man the same week, saying nothing of the rent man and a pair of shoes for that boy or girl. God have mercy on a poor married man with a large family of small children.

At our last meeting Cy Herron, L. Carmicheal. A. H. Barth and Bert Wolf were nominated for delegates to the next regular convention.

The writer was elected delegate to the special convention of the State Federation of Labor, to be held at Anderson, beginning May 8, 1917. It was the closest election Local Union No. 23 ever held. Two were nominated and the election was won by a single vote.

Tuesday, April 17, in the afternoon, there was a patriotic parade here in which between 6,000 and 7,000 people participated. Rain caused the postponement of the night parade until April 20.

The brothers of Local Union No. 23 are having a hard time getting good shears. Some brother or brothers will do Local Union No. 23 a great favor if they will tell us a good shear and where to find it.

Brother Jack Hilton spent Easter with Brother Wm. Labay of Local Union No. 23.

Brother Ralph Carmicheal, of Kokomo, formerly of Local Union No. 23, spent Easter with his parents of this city. Come again, Bob.

A few of the brothers got in an argument as to who was the richest man in Local Union No. 23. Brother Cliff Brown owns a place, Joe Elliot has a couple of hundred in bank and some of the rest of the brothers are not broke yet, and so they argued, but it all ceased and the brothers dispersed when Farmer Bird spoke up and said: "By gum! I got a brood sow and six taters."