Glass makers lockout, Brookfield listed

THE GLASS-MAKERS LOCKOUT.

Last Saturday morning the Eastern Fling Glass Manufacturers Association met in room 111 at the Astor House to take action on the demands of the glass workers for increased wages. The morning session was passed in a desultory discussion of the situation, and no definite action was taken until after lunch. As the meeting was held with closed doors there is no detailed report of the proceedings obtainable, but the result of the afternoon meeting was a unanimous decision on the part of the manufacturers to draw fires and close factories. A few minutes after the close of the meeting telegrams announcing the decision were sent flying to the different factories, and by half-past six o'clock the bars were dropped in a majority of the eighteen factories represented: Gillinder & Son's, Rohrbacher & Hormann and Gill & Murray, of Philadelphia; F. Thill, Hibble & Rausch, Francis Storm, E.P. Gleason Manufacturing Co., John N. Huwer, and Nicolas Dannenhoffer of Brooklyn; H. O'Neil, of Jersey City; Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., Henry F. Spurr, manager of Sandwich, Mass.; Union Glass Co., John B. Gregory, manager of Sommerville, Mass.; New England Glass Works, Wm. L. Libbey & Sons, managers, of East Cambridge, Mass.; Meriden Flint Glass Co., J.A. Talmadge, manager, of Meriden, Conn.; Brox & Buckley, of Port Jervis, N.Y.; Mount Washington Glass Co., S. Shirly, manager, of New Bedford, Mass.; and C. Dorflinger & Sons, of White Mills, Pa. Mr. Gillinder, the president, and Mr. Spurr, the secretary of the association were very positive that the action taken would be final, and that the man who are at present out on strike would have to give up their demands or remain out of employment for an indefinite length of time. Several others of the representatives were equally positive that there would be no backsliding on the part of the manufacturers.

During the recess, when the members were taking lunch in the rotunda, there was considerable speculation as to what the result of the meeting would be and quite a number of dealers interested in the business were of the opinion that the manufacturers would concede for the present and take up the question later. There was some surprise manifested by those who entertained the idea when the announcement was made that the fires would be drawn.