Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-06
ABROGATED.

Five Window Glass Firms OF the
Smoky City Refuse to Comply
With the Agreement to Close
Down June 1st-PrObability OF
the Firms Being Expelled from
the Association.
PIrrsBuRGH, June 4.-The National
Convention Of Window Glass Manufac-
tuIer, held in Chicago last January,
passed resolution 10 close all the fac
tories on the first of June. a month
earlier than usual, unless the wages OF
all skilled workmen therein were re.
duced not less than twenty per cent, in
which event operations might be con-
tinued until the first OF July; but after
that time work should not re resumed
In any factory until the wages OF blow
ers, gatherers, fiatteners and cutters
were reduced twenty per cent. or more.
When this action OF the National Con-
ventiop was made public all the manu-
facturers here and elsewhere who were
spoken to on the subject thought the
resolution would not be complied with.
They were mistaken, as serious trouble
has broken out in this city. Itdoes not
come from the workmen, however, but
from the manufacturers. The reeolu-
ton to shut down on the lst OF June
has been sbrogated by no less than five
firms, who have persisted in running
their factories after the date fixed for the
stoppage, and not at reduction OF
twenty-five per cent. in the rate OF
wages, but upon the old basis. These
firms are Cunningham & Co., Thomson
& Co., and Able & Co., whose factories
are located in this city, and O'Leary,
Beck & Co., and Geo. Wampoof & Co.,
whose factories are located at Mononga-
hela City and Cookstown.
The mutinous firms consider their &C.
ton perfectly justi6able. A member OF
one OF them said to your correspondent
this evening: sour position toward the
association is just that of one party to
a contract toward another who has not
filled its conditions, and from this /
would not have you suppose for mo.
ment that We are the parties OF the sec
ond part. When the resolution was
adopted it was understood that all man
ufacturers should comply with it. This
they have not done, and did net in.
tend to do, as was plainly evi.
denced by the answers received by
the President OF the National Associa-
ton, Mr.. T. L. Day, to his letters OF in.
quiry sent out during the last month
from Ravenna, Newcastle, Bellaire,
GAINESVILLE, LaSalle, Ottawa, Baltimore
and New York State. Some firms wrote
that they would run their factories until
the middle OF June or the first OF July.
Others stated that they were undecided;
some did not answer at all, and even
the President himself, whose factory is
located at Kent, Ohio, stated that he
was undecided what course to pursue.
This We consider sufficient justification.
Our stocks were low, and as we had
gone into the arrangement with the dis
tinct understanding that it should
be generally observed, we felt that 1t
was no longer binding"
"Wil not your action have tendency
to disrupt the Association and revive the
old system Ct throat cutting?"
"In all probability it will excite a
lively discussion at the next meeting OF
the National Association, which will be
held at Coney Island in July, and it is
hard to predict the result. But even il
the Association were disrupted, and the
throat cutting system resorted to again,
it could not make things much worse
than they are. Associations are good
things, but the prices adopted in the
past have been very loosely adhered to
unless at times when the demand was
in proportion to the supply
1t is understood that at a meeting OF
the Association here last night resolu.
ton was adopted to expel all firms that
did not shut down by tomorrow night.
Several glass blowers were also spoken
to in regard to the matter. The major
ity of them seemed to consider the mu.
tiny a point in their favor, and that ii
the manufacturers fought among them.
selves they would not be in condition
TO fight their union.