Glass-Blowers Conventions

GLASS-BLOWERS' CONVENTION.

THE annual session of the American Flint Glass Workers' Union convened at 10:30 o'clock on Monday morning, the 13th inst., in the Common Council Chamber, Philadelphia. William H. Smith, of Pittsburgh, the president of the Union, occupied the chair. The convention will remain in session until Saturday. The deliberations are conducted with closed doors. The most important business to be transacted is the establishment of a schedule of wages for the coming year. Action will also be taken in reference to the seven months' strike of the flint workers of the Ohio valley.

The annual convention of the American Green Glass Bottle Blowers' Association met in Pittsburgh July 13th, L. Arrington, of Milwaukee, presiding. There were seventeen delegates present, the cities represented being Milwaukee, St. Louis, Alton, Ill.; Covington, Newark, Ohio; Massillon, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh. The morning session was devoted to organization and preliminary routine business. The convention will continue four or five days.

The annual convention of the International Window Glass Workers' Association will begin some day this week at Kauffeld's Hall, Pittsburgh. Delegates from almost every factory in America and Europe will be in attendance. Albert Denny, assistant secretary, who has been organizing a tour of Europe, is daily expected to return, accompanied by European delegates, and the exact date of the convention will be fixed as soon as he arrives in New York. Meanwhile the Joint Wage Committee from the Northern, Eastern, and Western districts have been preparing a scale for discussion. The Northern district has had a scale 10 per cent less than the Pittsburgh scale, while the Eastern men have an independent scale, averaging 2 1/2 per cent less than that of Pittsburgh. It is believed that an attempt will be made to establish a uniform scale.