Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-18
WAS It BAD FAITH {?
A Glass Manufacturers Meet
ing in Chicago To-Day.
THEY ARE DISSATISFIED
And VIII Not Recognize the Action
of the PittSburgerS,
THE ASSOCIATION MAY DISBAND.
An Expert Tank Furnaceman From Bel
GUM is Now in the City.
THEY ARE DISSATISFIED
TIE ASSOCIATION MAY DISBAND.
OTHER INTERESTING LABOR ITEMS

A meeting of the members OF the Western
Window Glass Manufacturers Association,
outside of those in this city, will be held at
the Grand Pacific Hotel, in Chicago, to-day
for the purpose of taking action upon the
settlement of the window glass strike by the
Pittsburg members of the Wages Com
mittee.
According to circulars received in this
city yesterday, this action will be adverse
to the decision of the committee which
granted the advance. 1t is said that nearly
every manufacturer in the West is dissatis-
fed with the settlement, and claim that they
will not recognize the action of the commit
tee. This means that they will not pay the
advance without renewal of the struggle,
and as far as the West is concerned, the
strike has not been settled.
The information was obtained yesterday
from two reliable Pittsburg manufacturers.
They stated that the advance was granted by
the committee because one of their number
wanted to start his own factory. They claim
that he should have resigned his position on
the committee, and, if he wanted to, he could
sign the scale for his own firm and not for
the whole association.
INSIDE ACTIONS DETAILED.
At the meeting of the Pittsburg manu-
facturers Wednesday last, the manufacturer
in question said he wanted to start up at
once. The other manufacturers did not
want him to do so and there was quite
spirited discussion about the matter His
factory is a 40 pot concern, and has the use
of free natural gas The other manufac-
turers paw $50 per month per pot Tor gas
and it will be seen that the 40 pot concern is
saving an expense of So, 900 per month on
fuel. For this reason, the manufacturers
wanted to begin work at once.
When it became known that the member
of the Wage Committee wanted TO start up,
it is stated that firms in the West tele-
graphed him to hold off until they held
their meeting to-day. 1t is also said that no
notice of the meeting OF the two committees
on Friday night was sent to the Western
manufacturers who were on the committee
in time for them to reach Pittsburg. The
other members are President Catlin, of
Ottawa, ILL.,, Messrs. Gray, of GAINESVILLE,
O., and Goldman, Of Ravenna.
The manufacturers west of this CITY con-
troll over two-thirds of the entire product of
the Western Association. In Pittsburg
there are PA potts. not counting the tank
C1DdCl1 dl CSduuGll6s W GSb VI llllS CITY
there were at the time of the shutdown GO
pots.
1t is thought that the manufacturers west
of this city Will break away from the asso-
citation, on account of the action of the
Wage Committee, and the outcome of the
whole matter may be the
DISRUPTION OF THE ASSOCIATION
A new one will then be formed and the
Two largest factories in this vicinity will be
left out of it. This is the combination pub
lished Yesterday afternoon which has been
freely talked of the past few DAYS. Some of
the manufacturers want to combine and
erect tank furnaces keeping their present
pots, for the production OF the best grade of
glass. As yet, no plans have been outlined
for the details of the scheme. A tank
furnace complete will cost in the neighbor-
hood of 100000 and no one manu-
facturer wants to go into it without outside
assistance. The firms who are supposed to
be working up the new combination are
O'Leary Bros, and Wolf, Howard & Co.
President Bodine, of the National Asso-
citation, is going into the tank business on
his own hook. His place of business is in
Philadelphia. and the tank is now in course
of construction, and it is expected it will be
working by November 1.
The demand OF the mixers and teasers, for
an advance OF wages, III Ihe same propor-
tion as the advance given window glass
workers, will probably be granted by the
manu- facturers. When the reduction was
made in 1884 they were reduced 10 per cent
Since then their wages have been increased
per cent, and the present scale restores
the wages of 1884 A number of the
Pittsburg factories will elbow on Satur-
day, and 1t will be necessary to have the
trouble settled before that time if the blow
ers 90 to work. The men are organized in
L. A. 1448, knights of Labor, but do not
expect any assistance from the Window
Glass Workers Association. The latter
have promised the manufacturers to start as
soon they are ready, but they cannot do so
if the mixers and teasers do not furnish
them the glass to work.