Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15

worked the same way. If cold pipes are
run into the batch, it cools, and the glass
becomes corded. When in this condition
it cannot be blown. They tried their first
tank with glass that had been melted once;
but it would not work satisfactorily.
"If the rules of the association were not
so stringent, it would not be necessary to
import foreigners into this country to work
in our factories. Anybody that knows any
thing about the window glass business
knows that there are not enough window
men in the business now to supply the de-
mand. There may be enough double
strength blowers; but single-thick blowers
are very scarce. The rule allowing only 10
per cent of the factory to learn the business
falls away below the natural growth of the
trade.
1.-THE window glass business will be abso-
lutely paralyzed when the tank factory be-
gins to turn out its products. Owing to the
discovery of natural gas in Ohio and Indi-
ana, dozens of factories have sprung up
within the past two years. They have COB
bled up all the spare labor in the country
and thrown thousands of boxes of glass on
the market that will not be sold for long
time vet. Why, in the little town of Find
lay, O., alone, there are IL factories, all
running. The demand has not been any
thing like the supply.
ALL RIGHT, IF KNIGHTS.
Mr.. James Campbell, President Of the
Window Glass Workers Association, said
to a reporter last night that he had not been
officially notified of the arrival of any for
eign glassworkers. He also affirmed that
he had not been officially notified that any
of them would come. Speaking of the matter
in general, he said:
eff the men come here and present their
cards to us as members of the union, or
Knights, of course we have nothing to say
in objection to them"
"But would it not appear like discrimi-
mating against American labor to permit
the filling of these positions with foreign
workingmen?"
"No; because the increase in the estab-
lishment of new pots has been so enormous
that to-day all the factories in the country
could not be filed with American glass
blowers"
'"But is that not the fault of your appren-
ticeship system?"
"No; our apprenticeship system is the
most liberal of any trades union. We allow
any father to teach his son the trade; then
we allow ten per cent of apprentices on the
entire number of blowers, and beside that
every gatherer is entitled to become a
blower if he is member of our organiza-
tion.
WHERE THE RUB IS.
"Now look at these figures: In 1882 there
were $40 pots in operation throughout the
country, while in the fall of 1888 there were
over /, ,400-an increase of over $50 per cent
OF course it was impossible for the blowers
to increase in similar ratio, and hence the
enormous demand for labor"
Mr.. Stenger, Belgian and glassblower
at McKee's, on the Southside, was anxious
ly looking for the arrival of additional men.
He went to the Lake Erie depot twice dur
ing the day, as well as to the Union depot,
but without any result. When he was
asked whether he knew of the mems arrival,
as per first consignment reported above, he
said:
mo; 1 did not know that they were COM
ing. 1 do not know whether they come as
contract men, either. although was told
they were. Personally, do not think they
| would
Mr.. Sellers Mckee is in the East, so he
could not be seen with relation to the above
statements.
At the home of Mr.. James Chambers, in
the afternoon, reporter was informed that
the gentleman was "out driving" In the
evening, when another reporter called for
this paper, he was informed that Mr..
Chambers went to Jeanette some days ago,
and would not be back for a day or two,
| anyway.