Glass Industry, Indiana

FROM INDIANA'S MAGIC CITY.

Chas. Boldt Factory Now Equipped With Machines.

Will Operate Under Flint Jurisdiction. — Situation

at Ball Bros. and Hemingray's — Many Live

Trade Items.

Muncie, Ind., March 30. — Ball Bros. factories are all working in full. Five tanks on jars employing 114 shops, averaging for a day's work 3,700 jars per shop, making 421,800 jars as a total every day. The white liner department is on in full and the boys are enjoying a good run and the prospects are good for all until July.

At the Chas. Boldt Glass Co.'s works in the west end, they have operated in the past on bottles, but have now made a change. They closed down six weeks ago and started up this week on machines making wide mouth bottles. This plant was formerly run under the jurisdiction of the Glass Bottle Blowers Association, but when they put in machines they changed and now employ members of the American Flint Glass Workers' Union. The machines will be worked on one tank. The other will be worked on white liners.

At the Hemingray plant everything is running full. Their new tank is running along well on lamps and iron mold ware and they have installed two new machines to make their famous Globe jar. This is a jar that has few equals on the market and a good run is looked for with more machines to be added later. Two tanks are making insulators, while the fourth tank has been arranged to make shades and caster place ware. This is one of the steadiest firms in the glass business today and they have a good steady set of men who have been employed with them for more than twenty years.

Among some of the new arrivals at the Hemingray's plant are Joseph and John Ebenwalter. Perry is making lamp feet and when not at work is arranging for his summer camp, known as the Old Jack Fishing Club. Perry has an educated mule and covered wagon. The club will be composed of Perry and Motz Ebenwalter, Wm. Ensley, and F. W. Henry. They will camp at Mud Lake.

President T. W. Rowe and W. P. Clarke visited Muncie last week on trade business. Ellsworth Conley and Pete Bradley, of Upland, visited friends here on Sunday. — Joseph Love and his brother, William, are new arrivals at Hemingray's. — B. Amans, late of Findlay, is working at Balls.

Many members of the flint organization are hoping that the union will build factories for the striking chimney workers, as they say that the old way of striking is a thing of the past, and in order to make headway or hold their own they must try a new system and the co-operative plan is the only system.

The election of delegates to the convention by the different local unions is near at hand and it will be well for all members to lay aside all friendship or animosity and vote for the man who is best qualified for the place, for it takes good delegates to keep our union in good condition. — Flint.