Muncie, IND.; News of Local 23, The dinky or one shop tank is being readied, blue and amber insulators are the product of this tank

MUNCIE, IND.

By J. W. Claspell.

Everything is still moving along nicely at the Hemingray Glass Co.'s plant, the fourteen shops getting in full time, plenty of orders on hand and no stock in the yard.

Number one tank is being put in readiness and will possibly be running before this article goes to press. There will be one automatic, two semi-automatics and one hand shop on this tank.

The dinky or one-shop tank, also is being put in readiness for a start. Blue and amber insulators are generally the product of this tank.

The new packing shed has been completed and equipped with steam heat, which is a great improvement over the old system, which was to put the ware in the yard and pack from the stack regardless of weather. For years the packers have packed the ware in this way, summer and winter.

This company as well as other companies, has come to realize that by treating their employes like men, that they get better results as well as conserving labor. The time is long since past when men and boys stand around with mouth watering, as it were, and eyes pleading for a chance to earn a scant living, or a mere existence, by hard labor under almost impossible conditions.

Small help is the greatest handicap this company has to contend with, but it is being overcome by filling the places with colored women.

Many of the old timers are coming back to the Hemingray plant. Brother Geo. Mathison, Jr., known to the trade as Geo. Taylor, is back on the job. Doc. Cline, Pat Murphy and Chas. Lang are just out of the army after serving for about twelve years. I believe he was a major. He saw service with Gen. Pershing in Mexico when the latter was sent to capture Villa. Brothers Glen Thorp, mould maker, and Leo Louck, gatherer, also are back. The latter served in the navy during the world war.

Before closing I wish to correct a slight error I made in my last article. I've been informed that Brother McCarthy wasn't called Petey Dink because he looked so much like that worthy, but rather because of the close resemblance of the better halves of the two men.