Wagner Glass Works employees on strike

THE FLINT GLASS UNION

EMPLOYES AT INGALLS TO DEMAND

RECOGNITION OR STRIKE.

Independent Factories Rapidly Organised -- Names of Lapel Rioters Being Secured.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

ANDERSON, June 30. The indications to-night are that the Wagner glass works, at Ingalls, will be tied up by a strike of employes for recognition as members of the Flint-glass Workers' Union. All but two of the blowers are paid to be ready to join the union. Organizer Morrison returned from there to-day, having made a last effort to avert any trouble. He was blocked in this effort, but was assured by the men that unless their request for recognition as members of the union be granted by Saturday night they would walk out and remain out.

The situation at Lapel is apparently unchanged and although there have been no demonstrations it is not regarded as reassuring. The officers and union men have been actively searching for the names of those who participated In the Monday night riot and have secured a large number. The men quartered at the Hotel Helney have been armed and will resist another attack. Their forbearance was due, it is said, to the counsel of older heads among the union men, who advised against any act that would jeopardize their cause. Mr. Morrison stated to-nay that the principal objection encountered at Lapel came from the management of the Wilcox plant, but that the factories would never be operated at full capacity till the principle of unionism was recognized, because the flints were now so powerful that they would be able to control the situation within another ten days.That will mean that all of the independent factories must fall into line or close down.

Big Glass Works Closed.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

MUNCIE, Ind., June 30. -- At midnight to-night the fires in Ball Bros’ glass fruit Jar factories were turned out, and fifteen hundred hands are let out for the annual vacation of two months, to the displeasure of a majority of them. The skilled workmen, who make big wages, and whose work is with the patent blowing machines near the furnaces, look to the time for the annual shut-down with Joy, but with the common laborer It Is different. Over 54,000,000 jars have been made by the firm during the past season.

The Glass Factory Shut Down!

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

MARION, Ind., June 30. -- The North Marlon flint glass factory, the Thomas Evans glass factory and the four factories of the Wilson & McCulloch Company, in this city. Converse and Fairmount, closed down to-night for a two months' vacation. By the shut-down over 2,000 employes will be thrown out. Several of the employes with their families will camp along the Mississubewa river during the shut-down. The North Marlon factory will run an excursion for employes to Toledo to-morrow.