The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-30
LABOR MATTERS.
VERY ILI-ApvIsIp STRIKE
OFthO Green Hottie WorksTs-ThS Work Of
u DsmagogIc Labor Lsador-NIaJorlty
OF the wOrkmen Opposed to tho
OrloF-Tuunsr's Strike Ended,

New York, Nov. 20,-DFuggists and Al
others who use green glaas bottles ma!
have considerable trouble III securing
those articles for some time to come. Thl
glasablowers employed in all the country
east of Pittsburgh have just been ordere(
to strike by one John Coffey, Of Phila
delphia, Master Workman ol the Drug
gists' Ware Glsssworkers' Lsagus, East
ern Division.
Mr.. OoGsy, as far as has been asCer
tanned from the glsssblOwers hsresbout
is demagOgic sort OF person who hal
Just been elevated to a position Of trust
by his iellow-workmen. Ho Is now Cele'
brating his elevation by the peCuliarsort ol
methods recently employed by Butler out
IN Ohicgo, who engineered 30 disastrous.
" the strike OF packers, and by Martin
Irons, who gained such an unssYory rep.
utstion In connection with tbs strike on
Jay Gould's Southwestern system. by
reason Of Mr.. Coasy's imperative ordera
all the glass blowers employed at HaSert
Brothers 4 %, in Brooklyn, aud nearly
all Of these employed at the BnshWick
Glass Works are alsO out. This enforced
strike ia not approved by q great majority
OF the men, who are members Of the
0laeghlowers' League,
Last summer the REeCuIivo Committee
OF the l.eagu6 met and adopted RC9le OF
wSgep, and In conference with the man.
uiacturers II was agreed to pay the men
10 percent below the acsle, and
give the manufacturers the right
TO employ and train the two
apprentices they asked for. On this basis,
which was perfectly satisfactory TO the
Executive Committee, the men were or.
derGd to 20 10 work, and they did go on
the lat Of November. They were not bad .
ly off, certainly, for under 1t they could
make from IS to 50 a day.
Just alter the furnaces were started, and
when tho men were well OF work, there
came q call Tor special meeting OF the
league at Camden, j. Not knowing
that anything nj importance was coming
up, q large numbar OF the ilctorles failed
to ba represented at this meeting, held
two weeks ago. Its principal outcome
Wb5 Nv utTuSIlOH W 4uulkH lIHlA tllb
position ha had 20 long aud ualiafaCiorily
occupied and the substitution OF John
Colrey, a radical workman and Rgitstor OF
the Home Club sChool.
Hardly had Codey been indicted into
office, before, like flash from clear sky,
came the order 10 strike.
Q1Gey wGS dumb hionnded by the refusal
Of the gasE'blOTefg 10 obey the mandate
to strike.
Mr.. OoFey's order, II carried into effect,
will throw come 5000 people out OF work
and close all tho isc!orIcs where drug.
gIsts' bottles ore blown IN this State, New
Jersey. Pennsylvania, aud the Eastern
States, A large majority OF the blowers
are satitHed with the present scale oi
wages, and the only trouble seems to be
about the employment OF apprentices.
Cooley Gad his followers arc not willing
that the boys employed In the iartorIeg
shall be allowed 10 learn the trade, which
they seemingly desire should die out with
them.
Manufacturers and manufacturers
agents in this city yesterday refused Ia
take any orders for green.glass wares, and
could npt make any promises as TO when
goods already ordered will be delivered.
A loug eight is expected unless the dlsRat,
isisction among tho workmen leads Ia
Coaey's orders being disObeyed outright,