American Flint Glass Workers' Union & Green Glass Bottle Blowers' Association

TO UNITE

Bottle Blowers and Flint Glass

Workers Open Joint Session.

An amalgamation of two large labor organizations is expected at a joint convention of the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association and the American Flint Glass Workers' Union, which began Monday at the Odd Fellows' Temple, to last several days. The proposal for amalgamation has been made by President T. W. Rowe, of the Flint Glass Workers, of Pittsburgh. Leaders of the bottle blowers approve, and the proposition is tipped to carry. The bottle blowers, however, want to maintain a separate suborganization, as their wages range much higher than those of the flint glass workers employed mostly on window glass. Wages range from $4 to $9 a day. The work is very exhausting and few active workers live to old age.

Representatives of the Glass Manufacturers' Association will be in Cincinnati Thursday to confer with the unions on wage scales for the ensuing year.