Boys of Hemingray on strike

BOYS DEMANDED MORE PAY;

THEY ARE NOW ON A STRIKE

Helpers at Ball Brothers and

Hemingray’s Glass fac­tories

Have Caused the

Closing of Several Shops.

Ball Brothers' two fruit jar factories and the Hemingray Flint Glass fac­tory, are handicapped because of trouble with the boys who are employed as helpers to the skilled workmen in the factories. Wednesday morning, some of the boys in each of the fac­tories, decided that they could be paid more wages, and quit. They attempt­ed to make a complete shut down, but did not wholly succeed. The jar tank, at No. 1 factory of Ball Brothers' plant, "knocked off" and two shops on the bottle tank, in the same factory, quit, leaving but, seven shops at work in this factory. At No 2 factory, there are three shops off, on tank No. 5, some of the boys from this factory having gone to work, where others boys quit at the Hemingray factory. In the latter plant, there were but few blowers at work Wednesday, but the night crew fared better. The boys made no definite demand from the two companies, but it is understood that they want 90 cents, $1 and $1.25 for work, that has paid them 85 cents, 90 cents and $1 per day at Ball Brothers' plant. The Hemingray works figures are not given out. The general belief prevails that the strike is not serious, and, that it slight increase in wages, offered today, would bring the boys back to their places. There is a great scarcity of boys for the work. Their places are consequently hard to fill, for the reason that a man, even at better wages, can not fill the place as satisfactorily. If the strike con linen long, several hundred men will be thrown out of work. The boys have no organization.