Hemingray Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana

Girls Strike

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Fort Wayne Journal

Fort Wayne, IN, United States
p. 2

Girls on a Strike.

 

MUNCIE, Ind., April 10. — The twenty girls employed at the Hemingway [sic] Hemingray glass works went on a strike after being refused higher wages. The girls appointed a committee to watch the factory to keep other girls away. It will take men to fill the places unless other girls can be found to work for the wages, forty cents a day.

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Keywords:Hemingray Glass Company : Female Labor
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Supplemental information: 
Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:March 27, 2006 by: Bob Stahr;