The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-28
The Glass Lockout at pittsbursh.

Pittsburgh Gazette Of yester1ay.
It having been announced that the glass
pressers lately employed at the tableware
factories, now on o strike, would hold
meeting at Bedford Hall, South Side, last
evening, a reporter Of this journal visited
the hall for the purpose of obtaining re-
port Of tbeirdoings. Arriving at the place
where the meeting was supposed to be In
progress, the reporter learned that the
meeting had been postponed until next
Saturday evening. A dozen or more of
the strikers were congregated at the
corner Of Carson and Eleventh streets,
where Bedford Hall is situated, and
one Of these was interviewed on
the subject Of their troubles, their
intentions and their prospects He said
a meeting was TO have taken place last
night for the purpose OF organizing COM
pany to carry on the glass business on the
cooperative plan, butt had been decided
TO postpone the matter until Saturday
evening. A paper had been circulated
among the strikers for Q subscription OF
stock in the enterprise, and several men
had each taken q share, while two Others
had subscribed 81 900 each. 1t had been
agreed at q preliminary meeting, held 3
few days ago, to place the shares at $3.50
At this rata tho amount already subscrh-
ed is $3.50. In response to the question
as to what arrangement they propos-
ed to make for a building in which
to establish their factory the striker
replied that the pqmNlttep Of pressers had
examined Kings old structure, at the
head OF Twelfth street, and had ascertain
ed that it could be rented for small sum,
but they had found the building in such
bad condition that it would cost nearly as
muph to repair it rs to erect o new man:
ufactory. He could not say what would
be done in that behalf. Everything de-
ponds on the action OF the next meeting.
The strikers, he said, were in no particular
hurry 10 resume work, as they all had
money enough to keep them for several
months to come. "Why, look at the
chimney glass blowers" said the striker;
'they have been idle for nineteen months,
and they manage to live about as
wpll rs they did when at work.
And they not only live well, hut
many OF them ere able to get drunk every
Saturday night. Where do they get the
money? l am not able to tell, but they
have /, all the same. Some Of our men
(the pressers) have plenty Of money, and
arc able to livpR long time without work.
Those who are short financially, can OBJ
tain employment elsewhere. We have
letters from manufacturers in the East of
fering work to several hundred Of our men.
We quit work here because the manutac-
tursTs WaRt 10 lRaks US WoFs Ave hours ut
stretch, without giving US time to take q
chew OF tobacco"
After hearing the above talk the report
or called on q prominent manufacturer
and asked him what he thought about the
movement on the part Of the strikers to go
into business for themselves. He said
very emphatically: "You can Just set 1t
down that their talk about cooperative
iaptosy Is all moopsllne. They have tried
the cooperative plan several times, and it
has always ended in disaster to the stock
holders. l don't believe they intend to
start q factory. They are only bluting."