Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
CHAMBERS DENIES IT.
He Says Jeannette Is Not Cutting
Card Prices on Window Glass.
LoEFFLER's CIRCULAR REFUTED.
The Firm Not Responsible fof the Work.
ers' Scale Being Signes.
PROOF OF STATEMENTS CHALLENGED
The Sale Of Tank Glass Declared the Best lest Of
Its Quality.

The statements that Chambers & Mckee,
window glass manufacturers. have been cut
ting prices on their. product, and intend to
inaugurate vigorous warfare in the trade,
is denied by Mr.. James A. Chambers. He
says they are in no way responsible for the
action of other manufacturers in the asso-
citation who signed the workers scale, and
are getting better prices than some others.
Mr.. James A. Chambers, President of the
Chambers & Mckee Glass Company, denies
the statements made by William Loeffier,
Secretary of the Western Window Glass
Manufacturers Beneficial Association and
Chairman of the Wage Committee, in which
Mr.. Loeffier accuses Chambers q Mckee
with cutting prices, and by reason Of this,
he Qoefler) found it necessary to sign the
workers scale. In reference to the circular
issued to the trade, which was published in
yesterdays DISPATCH, Mr.. Chambers is
sues the following card:
Mr.. William Loefier Of the firm Of r. O.
Schmertz & Co.. and Chairman Of the Manu-
facturers' Wage Committee, has issued a cir
cular to the effect that we were indirectly the
cause Of his having signed the glassworkers'
scale. would have allowed this publication
to 60 unanswered as have others that have
appeared almost daily incur papers for months
past, hac it not been for the following sentences
in bis circular, viz: "The policy of Jeanette
seems TO be to sell very low, and to operate
ten months in . year, acting independently Of
the association. This policy. logically carried
out, means the
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEsr.
"Other manufacturers. running only eight or
nine months, cannot hope to compete with the
low prices of Jeanette"
This language has been used for the purpose
Of misleading and deceiving those who read it.
as one would naturally infer that Jeanette
was selling glass below the prices at which
other manufacturers in the association were
selling, or, in plain English, cutting prices. 1
am not willing to allow such an insinuation to
go broadcast without correction. / therefore
make the following statement for those of our
friends who are not cognizant of the facts and
may have been misled:
The Chambers & KcKee Glass Company
never belonged to any organization, never
agreed to maintain or sell at any stated price,
and never agreed to stand for any list of wages.
furnaces about eight weeks, and of the other
only a day or two. We have sold more than
l00,000 boxes of glass, and have not sold one
box of this quantity at lower price than the
price at which the regular association manu-
facturers were and are selling their glass.
Furthermore the Chambers & Mckee Glass
Company have sold no glass at as low price as
I know r. Q. Schmertz & Co.. Limited, have
sold glass or many others could mention. 1
only mention r. Q. Schmertz & Co. because
they have written this circular and have taken
the trouble to insinuate that Jeanette Is ruin
ing prices.
aooD rRApr FOR rHrIR GLASS
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