Making Slow Progress; more glassblowers quit; 14 blowers quit at Bushwick

MAKING SLOW PROGRESS.

A FEW MORE GLASSBLOWERS QUIT WORK AT COFFEY'S ORDER.

The 14 glassblowers at the Bushwick Glass Works have yielded to the order issued by Master Workman John Coffey, of the Druggists' Ware Glassblowers' League, and last evening they joined the ranks of the strikers. Threats that ambulances would be needed in that part of Brooklyn if they continued at work caused their courage to ooze away, until it would have taken more than the agreement they had made to work until July and the good wages they were earning to keep them at work. They informed Mr. William Brookfield yesterday morning that they should leave when the day's work was finished, and he promptly gave orders to have the fires raked out. The agreement between Mr. Brookfield and his men has thus been broken three times since the beginning of the blast on Sept. 1.   At Hagerty Brothers & Co.'s works, the only other large establishment for the manufacture of druggists' glassware in this vicinity, the men have broken their agreement twice and are still out.

Master Workman John Coffey is hard at work trying to bring about obedience to his order. His district is extensive, embracing all the druggists' ware glass factories east of the Alleghenies, and even some in Canada.   The state of New Jersey contains more factories then all the rest of the Eastern Division, and it also contains men who seem to care very little for Master Workman Coffey. It is now a week since his order was issued, and the New-Jersey men are still blowing glass and receiving therefore from $35 to $65 per week. Coffey's policy, it seems, is to make the strike successful through scattered factories on the edge of the district, and then turn his batteries on New-Jersey. He is likely to have a hard fight there, as the blowers at Salem, Millville, and Clayton have already handed back the charters which they received last July from the Knights of Labor, and many others are expected to do the same.

The manufacturers are not going to submit to Master Workman Coffey without a fight. They will meet for deliberation on the situation at Philadelphia next Thursday. Coffey's manner of procedure is especially obnoxious to the manufacturers. He and his henchman Kaltenbach, who is left to keep the man out at the Bushwick and Hagerty works, promise the men that they will be given all the work they can do.   To the apprentices the promise is made that they will be given employment as journeymen. This is done in spite of the fact that none of the manufacturers would employ another's striking men nor his apprentices as journeymen.