Hemingray Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana

HEMINGRAY STRIKE

STILL IN FORCE.

Almost All Strikers Went to

Office and Received Wages

This Afternoon.

REFUSED THE DEMAND

And Posted Orders for All Strikers

to Call for Their Pay, Being Discharged

— Boys Flocking to Get Wages Saying

They Will Not Return to Work.

The boys' strike at the Hemingray Flint Glass factory has not been settled and the situation is becoming more complicated. The 124 boys left their work Friday and Saturday, and refused to resume work when the demanded advance of ten cents per day was refused by the management.

This afternoon at 1 o'clock notices were posted at the factory for all boys who had not returned to work to go to the office and receive their money, as they could consider themselves discharged. There was a large number swarming about the offices at the above time to get what wages were coming to them. After receiving their pay the boys left the factory. They claim they will not resume work until the advance demanded is granted.

In the flint department the boys did not strike and the usual operations are recorded today. The other departments however, are idle with the exception of one shop.

Mr. Hemingray, when seen by a HERALD man today, intimated that the condition was made worse by the press reports praising the boy strikers. He believes this praise, said to have been given by certain local papers, made the strikers more persistent than they would have been otherwise. The strikers claim that they believe their wages should be increased, and that they had contemplated the action, and that since they had gone out, they would remain out until the advance was made. They are orderly and peaceful. Constable W. E. Floyd is on the scene today and is keeping perfect order. What the result will be is not known.