[Newspaper]
Publication: The National Labor Tribune
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
vol. 7, no. 35, p. 1, col. 4
THE GLASS WORKERS.
The Long Strike Ended — Condition
of the Trade:
The long strike of the pressed ware glassworkers has ended at last, and all the factories are at work. Many conferences have been held, and discussions had, but no agreement was arrived at until last Monday morning, when the proposition of the manufacturers, having been thoroughly debated by the Pressers’ Union, were accepted, and an agreement entered into to go to work. About 450 operatives, pressers and gatherers are affected by the settlement The basis agreed upon is that the gatherers be paid by the hundred instead of by the turn as formerly, and the blowers to work the same as they did before. The object of the strike, though no compromise of position on either side, has been made — it working its own way out — and that was the securing of a uniform move and wage-list in nine of the “combination," (not "union," that is too common) factories, the other four factories not being "union," will naturally fall in, and as is usual in all such efforts to benefit both labor and capital, will reap the reward of other people’s energy, perseverance and uprightness without having contributed to the attainment of the result.
— All of the glass works in Wheeling and vicinity, are working full-handed.
— All of the glass factories in South Boston, Mass., are busy.
— The Excelsior glass company, Pittsburgh start 36 shops on chimneys next Monday.
— Plunkett & Co.’s chimney factory, Southside, started last Monday with 28 shops.
— Duncan & Sons, this city, are at work on pressed ware, full handed, their troubles with boys being fully settled.
— The various glass works in Millville, New Jersey, are at work, full handed on specialties in glass ware.
— The New England glass works, Boston, Mass., is running one furnace on pressed and blowed ware.
— The Sandwich, Mass., Glass Co. is operating two furnaces on pressed and blowed ware, with good prospects.
— Hemmingray’s [sic] Hemingray's glass works, Covington, Ky., is working the two furnaces in their establishment full handed on pressed and blowed ware.
— Gill Bros., Philadelphia, propose to put on six press shops soon. Their former output was oil shades and chimneys.
— The Mississippi glass company, of St. Louis, Mo., shut down for repairs last Saturday. They propose to start again on or about the 15th of September.
— Gillander [sic] Gillender Bros., Philadelphia, running their factory full-handed at present time on pressed ware and chimneys, and the outlook is very favorable.
— Beatty’s press house, Steubenville, Ohio, is now running full-handed, the recent difficulty having been satisfactorily adjusted.
— The Crystal glass works, this city, expect to put out their fires on Saturday for repairs. They anticipate being able to start again by the middle of September at farthest.
— Adams & Co., Campbell, Jones & Co., Bryce, Walker & Co., Ripley & Co., King, Son & Co. and Richards, Hartley & Co. are all running, they being the factories affected in the recent strike.
— Gill Bros., Steubenville, Ohio, chimney factory has been unable to secure a full complement of hands. Some Pittsburgh pressers left for that place, to work on chimneys, last Wednesday morning.
— Fox’s prescription factory, of Philadelphia, is about to start their third furnace, and are giving employment to the men who struck at Storm’s against a tyrannicial petty boss, noticed in these columns last week.
— The Ft. Pitt chimney works, this city, is running two press shops, on a patent specialty of the firm, consisting in part of an “Adam and Eve” dish, a ‘little bo-peep” shaving cup, and kindred designs in ware. They expect a large holiday trade on these specialties.
— The Beaver Falls works, (press house), started up last Monday, after a stoppage of about two weeks. They were compelled to shut down until additional molds were made ready, as the ones in use were not of sufficient capacity to enable them to fill their orders.
— The new press house at Homestead, on the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston railroad, will start up on or about September 15th, and will adopt the "combination" move and wage list. They will employ about 35 of the striking blowers and gatherers.
— The new glass company which is being organized to manufacture specialties in glass ware, hold a meeting on Thursday evening next, to consider which of the propositions they will accept. One town on the Ohio river makes a very favorable offer to the company if they will locate within its limits, including which is a present from the citizens of four acres of ground, and a factory building complete.
