American Flint Glass Workers' Union

EMPLOYERS SPEAK

TO GLASSWORKERS

Offer Plan To Settle Disputes and

Wages — Barred Union

Welcomed Back.

The Executive Committee of the National Glass Manufacturers' Association yesterday made its call on the Flint Glassworkers' National Convention, now in session at Odd Fellows' Temple. The members were introduced by President T. W. Rowe and received with apparent good will by the three hundred delegates present. Their object in coming before the convention was to secure some modification of the arrangements for agreeing on wage scales. General Superintendent David Carie, of the National Glass Company, Pittsburgh, addressed the delegates at length in favor of the plan to allow all differences and wage arrangements to be settled by the National Conference Committee. He argued that that would be better than the present plan of requiring the membership of any branch of the trade to give its consent en masse to matters of this kind. Mr. Carie claimed that time would be saved, trouble avoided, and the men and employers benefited by the change, and it would be fair to the unions. The plan, as outlined, would require the men to keep at work pending a decision of disputes and in that way would avoid strikes and leave differences to arbitration. Mr. Daizell, Moundsville, W. Va., and Edward Kaye, both prominent manufacturers, also addressed the convention in support of the plan advocated by Mr. Carie.

There was considerable difference of opinion among the delegates on the subject. Half a dozen of them from Pittsburgh and other Eastern cities were outspoken against it, claiming it would be adverse to the men and would not be indorsed by the unions; they wanted the present method of deciding, by a referendum vote, continued. The matter was referred to a special committee for consideration, and the convention will act on it later. It seems to be the impression that the workers will stick to their present way of arranging wages and disputes.

The representatives of the manufacturers are to have some further hearings before the convention on the subject of the increases in wages which are asked for by the men. The latter are adhering to their demand for raises ranging from 4 to 15 per cent.

The convention called off the ban which had been put on Local Union No. 19, of Philadelphia. The latter had been refused representation in the convention because it had not paid its per capita tax, amounting to a few hundred dollars. Yesterday the officers of the union telegraphed a check for the entire amount to President Rowe. Thereupon Delegate McCarthy, who had been barred, was recalled and given the glad hand of welcome.