Glass Industry, Muncie, Indiana - Hemingray Glass Company Plant and Employees

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An Excellent Trade Report Covering Conditions

In Muncie, is Submitted by Our Capable

Correspondent.

Muncie, Ind., April 20. — All the factories here are running to their full capacity with plenty of orders to keep them running until July 1. The Hemingray Glass Co. have laid off their lamp and iron mold shops to make room for more insulator and jar shops.

At Ball Bros. factory they are shipping large consignments of jars every day. This company have a large stock of jars on hand, but at the present rate of shipping their stock will be greatly reduced by next August.

At the Boldt Glass Co.'s factory five machines are working on Mason jars and five are making white liners. Everything is running along very nicely at this plant. Among some of the new arrivals are Fred Bowers, George Cline, of Alton, Ill.; John F. Tobin, of Columbus, O.; D. M. Burke, Evansville, Ind.; E. M. McConnell, Upland, Ind.; Chalk Cahill, A. Paterson, Joseph Patton, M. O. Mara, and G. Gindhart.

Wm. Gebhart, a popular presser in factory No. 2, Ball Bros., has resigned his place as presser and has joined the Gentry Show as a musician. Billy is a royal good union man and always worked for the interest of the organization. His many friends here wish him good luck in his new position. — Geo. Wickline, of Frisco, is a new arrival at Ball Bros. plant.

All of the fishing clubs composed of glassworkers are preparing for their summer outing. The Happy Home Club, one of the largest in the state, will camp at Johnson's Island, near Sandusky, O. The Magic City Club, composed of Hemingray glassworkers, will camp at Bruce Lake in Northern Indiana. The Down Home Club will camp at Smithfield, near Muncie.

There is some talk of the American Window Glass Co. starting factory No. 10, this city, next fire, on machine-made glass.

Since the failure of natural gas in Muncie coal has been in big demand. Figurers show that over 3,200 carloads were handled here during the winter months. All factories here have installed gas producers for their furnaces and lehrs, as natural gas is a thing of the past.

The writer thinks it is the duty of all glassworkers who have the interest of the trade at heart to let the trade know through the Commoner and Glassworker how work and future prospects are in the different localities. There is very much of widespread interest in reports of this character and it will help those who are in search of employment. Correspondents should always be careful to give facts concerning the different factories and concerning trade conditions and then we would all be better posted on general conditions.

As Sunday, May 14, is set aside as Glassworker Memorial Day, there is no reason why the glassworkers of Muncie should not make this day one long to be remembered. There are buried in the city of Muncie many members of our trade and it would be an honor if each and every glassworker would turn out and properly observe the day. Gas City, Fairmount, Marion, Anderson, Matthews, Parker, Wheeling, and other cities contain workers who could come to Muncie and make this day one that will not be forgotten. Let every local union appoint a committee at its first meeting and make arrangements for a joint meeting of all glassworkers and let us observe the day.

James St. John, of Marion, is visiting friends here. The boys showed him a good time by taking him around the city in a fine rig. They selected white horses for luck, but St. John says that they must get the red-headed girl before he will believe in luck in the future. — Flint.