Hemingray Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana - Employees

GREAT DEMONSTRATIOIN AT MUNCIE.

Labor's Memorial Day Was Observed in a Manner

Which Reflects Credit on the Workers.

— Notes From the Factories.

Muncie, Ind., May 14. — Favored during the impressive ceremonies by beautiful climatic conditions, the observations of Labor's Memorial Day in Muncie passed off last Sunday in a manner highly gratifying to local workers. By actual count 914 persons, headed by two brass bands discoursing sacred music along the entire route, marched in measured tread to Beech Grove cemetery to pay tribute to the memory of eighty-one loyal unionists who are now sleeping their last long sleep in that beautiful city of the dead.

A distinct feature of the procession was the appearance of a large number of the members of the Women's International Union Label League who vide with the sterner sex in paying tribute to the dead. An assemblage of several thousand reviewed the marchers as they neared the cemetery and little time was lost in gathering about the speaker's stand, which had been erected and elaborately decorated for the occasion. Each of the eighty-one graves had been previously decorated by a committee selected for that duty.

John F. Tobin was the orator of the day and his address was listened to with rapt attention. He eloquently recounted the achievements of organized labor which was due, he said, "to the tireless energy of those for whom we mourn," and he closed with an appeal to his hearers to unflaggingly push forward the good work so that generations yet unborn may on future memorial days gather about our graves and thank God that we had lived. His personal tribute to each of the five local glassworkers, who died within the year was touchingly beautiful. Especially so was his reference to the good accomplished by Cornelius Canning, who was a consistent member of labor unions on both sides of the Atlantic.

Besides Bro. Tobin, other glassworkers were much in evidence during the observance. John O'Brien was master of ceremonies, W. H. McFadden pronounced the invocation and the Ireland Bells Quartet, composed of glassworkers, rendered several appropriate hymns in a manner that challenged criticism.

Taken all in all, it is doubtful if the workers of any other city observed the occasion so elaborately, and yet so simply, as did the workers of Muncie. Fully one-fifth of the inhabitants of the city attended the ceremonies and were deeply impressed by the magnificent procession and the faultless rendition of the program.

There is nothing new to report in connection with the operation of local glass factories. Ball Bros. continue to operate three jar and bottle furnaces and one white liner tank.

Hemingray's are operating but one furnace and do not expect to increase their output before September.

Boldt's is one of the few factories that has been operated almost continuously since last August.

Harvey Roessler and Wm. Connely will represent Branch No. 12 at Baltimore, while Local Union No. 2 will be represented in the Detroit convention by J. F. Tobin and Martin Joyce.

John O'Brien is the only delegate from L. U. No. 115. — Observer.