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Three Thousand Dollars Voted

By Glassworkers to Strikers

in the British Isles.

The convention of the American Glint Glassworkers' National Union yesterday gave practical expression to its sympathy with the locked out workers in Great Britain and Ireland by voting them $3,000 from the union treasury. This action resulted from the address made to the convention the day before by Secretary J. J. Rudge and J. Husselbee, the fraternal delegates from the British unions. The donation of the money was by a unanimous vote of the convention.

It is understood that the green bottle blowers' convention will follow the example of the flint glass men and will do quite as handsomely. Messrs. Rudge and Husselbee were yesterday the guests of the green bottle blowers' convention which they addressed on the subject of the present lockout in the British glass factories and the conditions of the craft in the leading European countries.

Will Rebuild Glass Factory.

The National Auditing Committee of the flintworkers made its report, finding the accounts of the order all in proper shape and the financial showing a good one throughout.

There was a report of the affairs of the glass factory which the National Union has been running on its own account at Summitville, Ind. This plant was burned early in June and the questions starting it or moving to a new location have been referred to this convention. Offers were received from towns which want the factory. Cincinnati is among the cities talked of as a location that would be desirable.

The Summitville plant gave employment to 150 men. So far as known this is the only instance of a labor union actually going into business on its own hook. What is more, the flintworkers say it has been made a success, and that is why they mean to keep it going. It has not only been self-sustaining, but netted a profit to the treasury of the National Union.

The green bottle blowers' committees are busy equalizing the price lists on which will depend their wage scale for the coming year. It is not yet known whether the result will justify a demand for increased wages when the committees of the men meet the employers at Atlantic City.

Gompers is Coming.

President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, wired the convention that he would be here today to meet the delegates and talk over matters with them.

Saturday afternoon the delegates to the two glass conventions will be the guests of the Lagoon, the management of which has extended them an invitation for that occasion.

It now appears that President T. W. Rowe will have no opposition for election to a full term as President of the Flintworkers' National Union. It was rumored that the friends of National Secretary John L. Dobbins intended to support him for President. The sentiment seems to be that Mr. Rowe is entitled to a regular term in the Presidency, and his friends now count on a walkover. Mr. Dobbins is to continue in his present position.

The question of combining the flint and the green bottle blowers' organizations has not yet been reached by either convention. One of the suggestions in connection with it is a joint meeting of the conventions at Odd Fellows' Temple.