Flint and Bottle Trade Report from the Eastern District
Brookfield Glass Company are Employing the Usual Number of Bottle Shops
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[Trade Journal] Publication: The Commoner and Glassworker Pittsburgh, PA, United States |
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BIG EXCURSION PARTY LATEST NEWS OF THE TRADE FROM THE EASTERN DISTRICT. · · FLINT AND BOTTLE TRADE REPORT. By Chas. C. Mayer. Among the various glass manufacturing institutions in Brooklyn, N.Y., trade conditions are in a very fair shape when compared with periods of normal activity. Every furnace of the Gleason-Tiebout enterprise is in blast; the Brookfield Glass Co. are employing the usual number of bottle shops; at the "Parlor" factory, Ravenswood, L.I., the usual good conditions and excellent prospects for the balance of the blast are in evidence, but at the Williamsburg Flint plant there has been a strike on during the past week which has not been adjusted at this writing, although it is locally predicted that the trouble will be short-lived. -Vice President Croke was here a few days ago looking after the interests of the Williamsburg chimney blowers. · ·
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