Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-28
NOT TO START.
Glass Manufacturers and Workers
Have a Long Conference, o.
At BeIIaire, Which Ends in No Practical
Good to Either Party---Ihe Fac
tories to Remain Closed
Down.

The flint glsss,workers fairly swarmed In
Bellaire yesterday afternoon and n who
was not accustomed to such scenes would
have thought that the whole town was
turned out into the street. The glass work
ers represent a large per cent. OF the work
ing population Of that tow and they were
all on the stir. President Smith, OF their
association, was in town and the boys were
SOMEWHAT ANXIOUS
that their head should not 60 away disap-
pointed if they were able to entertain him.
Mr.. Smith mingled with the workmen aud
made oil who spoke with him perfectly at
home.
At 10 o'clock the manufacturers filed into
the lodge room Of the glass workers and at
IL they came out again for dinner, having
in the meantime heard all that was import
snce from the Philadelphia convention. In
the afternoon the manufacturers convened
in the Office of the Bellaire Goblet Works
and in a short time presented
AN "~ULTIMATUM"
to the flint glass workers in the shape of the
following:
To W. J.. Smith, President 4. f. G.
". o.:
We are ready to start our factories al
once on same terms and prices as those en-
| loved BY our competitors, but We are un-
willing to resume on O different and more
| expensive basis than will be enforced in
Pittsburg up to September l; therefore we
| adhere to our original proposition to start
| our factories only on Pittsburg terms and
| prices, and be governed by any system here
| after that may be universal with our com
| r~etitors. This we ask in a spirit Of fairness
| 10 manufacturers and workmen, and request
a reply by August l, as September would
be to late for our trade.
ETNA GLASS Co,
BELLAIRE GOBLET Co.,
BELMONT GLASS WORKS,
BUCAE q GLASS WoaKs,
ELsoN GLASS Co.,
LABELLE GLASS Co.,
LANTERN GLOBE Co.,
RoDEFER BRos.
The circular was not allowed to lay until
the lst of August, for soon after
THE MANUFACTURERS
had departed President Smith and his com.
mittee decided to ask q few questions. The
owners OF the factories and the committee
met again about two o'clock and among the
rest the following question was asked BY
President Smith:
Would you be willing to resume work at
the old prices providing the men allowed
docking for inferior ware and ifthat was not
paid for TO be not broken?'
The manufacturers agreed TO this, but
other negotiations failed, and the compo'
nent parts Of the meeting separated.
Last evening a REGISTER reporter met a
we'll known manufacturer and asked him
what the final result of the meeting was.
"WeD," said he, you can say that nego'
tiations are apparently
AT AN END,
1 at least for the present. There are some
things in the new scale which we do no.
ike, and we found it called for a very con.
.iderable increase in wages, but We waived
our objections and accepted the result of the
Philadelphia convention, provided the men
would agree to haveit 60 into effect August
LIST, instead of September lst. We, oil
course. could not afford to waIt until the
lpriver manufacturers had thirty days the
start Of US on cheap glass and then 60 into
the market with wages twenty per cent
higher and expect to compete with oul
Pittsburg rivals. The men would not agree
20 that, and the whole thing is knocked into
a mess. We made what we considered Q
fair proposition, and as it was rejected, !
SUPPOSE we must lie idle
The reporter soon after saw one of the
workmen in q Martins Ferry factory and
.sked him how affairs were situated.
1--WE are back at the same old point said
he, land that is
COMPLETE DEADLOCK.
The manufacturers and our people failed tc
make q go of it to day, and it is impossible
o say what the result will be. | suppose
hat by September Let our local manufactures
will not care to start, and We may lie idle
until next spring. We seem to be playing
IN tough luck, but I guess there's no help
for it"