Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-27

The Independent glass works, Pitts,
burgh, is running full time with good
prospects.
The Western Flint Bottle Association
me. at the Monongahela House, Pits
burgh, last Saturday.
The prescription glass factory at But
Ter, Pa, is running steadily, using gas
in their furnaces, and report prospects
bright.
Campbell, Jones & Co, and the Ex-
celsior Glass Co., Of Pittsburgh, are
operating their glass factories steadily,
but report trade dull.
A company of glass work from Otta-
wa, ILL.,, have secured the La Sale win
dow glass factory, and propose to oper-
ate it with S full force Of men.
The Acme chimney works, OF Steu-
benville, o., is being furnished with q
new patent cnmper, and some new
pots are being set preparatory to start
ing up next week.
A number of glass workers will leave
Pittsburgh for Toledo, o., this week,
having agreed to proposition made py
a number of capitalists at that place TO
start works there.
The San Francisco and Pacific glass
works is about ready to 60 into opera
ton I'M San Francisco, Cal. The factory
will make everything in the shape OF
flint or white glass, such as tumbiers,
lamps, chimneys, fruit jars, goblets,
etc, etc.
The Panhandle window glass factory
of Wellsburg, w. Va, Is doing an I'M.
mense business, being unable to NIL
near all their orders. Their capacity
will be doubled when their new building
Is ready for use, which will be in about
two weeks. Its size ia S0xll0 feet. Their
present average is from 900 to l,OOO
boxes per week.
Sixty union men were discharged
from Rochester, Pa, tumbler WORKS last
week. The men were questioned as
they returned to work after q brief stop,
page, and those who acknowledged
membership in the union were denied
employment. Work was resumed az q
ten per cent. reduction ani the scabs re-
joice.
The Springfield, Mass, Republican
reports the business of the Berkshire
Glass Co., is especially good just now.
At Lenox they make heavy plates tnat
are iron u quarter of an inch to an lnch
thick. At Berkshire enc furnace is de-
voted TO common window glass. The
window glass department has had an
especial boom since September, owing
10 the general suspension of two-thirds
of the factories of the country because
of the strike of the blowers, which is
likely to continue through the winter.
A weekly tax of 10 per cent. of their
wages is demanded from every work
man now employed to support the
strike.
The employees of Hibbler & Rausch,
glass chimney manufacturers, OF Brook
Iyn, n. Y, are locked out. The firm
condemned the work Of % of them and
locked them each 90 cents. The men
alege that the defects, if any, Were
caused by the inferior quality OF the
material furnished them by the firm,
but deny there are any def; cts. The
committee of arbitration OF the union
called Oh the firm, and after an exami-
nation declared that the work was not
defective, anu told the firm they were
OIDOSeOl lO uuI lhoO tHSy
keep their men all out until this wrong
is gbted.
The glass manufacturers have chang
ed their tactics. a policy has been
adopted which they expect to defeat the
strikers. 1t is set forth in the following
dispatch dated New York, January Is:
The National Window Glass Manufac-
turers' Association and National Bottle
and Vial Manufacturers Association, in
session here, resolved to advance the
price of glassware generally ten pei
cent. The Western Manufacturers
agreed t. continue receiving orders
from their customers and send them
East, where goods will be manufacture
ed nd then turned over to the western
men for delivery, the goods to be man
ufactured for the western men at the
same cost as at their own factories. The
western factories will therefore remain
closed until the strikers agree to resume
work.