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

AMENDMENTS

To Constitution and Laws

Considered at Yesterday's Session of

Glassworkers' Convention —

Manufacturers Meet Friday.

The second days' session yesterday of the Flint Glass Workers' Convention was almost entirely devoted to the consideration of amendments to the constitution and laws of the national union, as submitted by a number of local branches in various parts of the country.

These amendments, it was stated, are purely technical to the trade, and not of general public interest, as they relate solely to the standing of members in the local and national unions.

A score of committees were appointed by President Rowe yesterday to revise the price lists in the different branches of the trade, and the real interest in the convention will come about Friday with the session of the Glass Manufacturers' National Association, which meets on that day at the Burnet House.

Under the custom prevailing for several years any manufacturer can confer with the committee handling the price list (which is another name for wage scale) in the particular line of production in which he is interested, and if the revised figures do him an injustice, or he has any protest to make about existing or proposed conditions in his plant, the matter is presented to the convention for action through the committee.

This system, it has been found, goes far to promote and maintain amicable relations, as under it the employers always has a voice in the fixing of the price lists, and they cannot be imposed upon him without his being heard.

David Carroll, of Pittsburgh, Penn., general manager of the National Glass Company, the great manufacturers' combine, arrived in the city yesterday and held brief conferences with several of the committees.

Quite a number of manufacturers from various points are also in the city to meet the committees, but nothing definite will be arranged until the Manufacturers' Association meets on Friday.

The advance guard of the Green Glass Bottle Blowers' Association, which meets at the Masonic Temple next Monday, arrived in the city yesterday and are quartered at the Place Hotel. The delegation comprises the Auditing and Price List Committees of the National Association, the members of these committees being: Harry Jenkins and J. J. Mullen, of Alton, Ill.; Fred Schirmel, Newark, Ohio; Mark Brannon, of Millville, N.J.; W. C. Kunkel, of Sharpsburg, Penn.; and Charles McNichols, of Toronto, Can.

Mr. D. A. Hayes, of Zanesville, Ohio, one of the most prominent trades union leaders in the country and a member of the National Civic Federation, which has done so much to settle labor controversies and strikes, is President of the Bottle Blowers' National Association, and will arrive in the city Sunday to preside at the sessions of its convention next week.

The matter of consolidation of the two national unions is being discussed by the flint glass men, but according to the latest advices there is very little probability of the proposition carrying.

President Hayes and other officials of the Bottle Blowers' Association are said to be unalterably opposed to the project, and it is counted therefore that their power and influence will defeat the measure.