Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-25
GREEN GLASS MEN MEET.


| The Strike In the East Broken-PresIdent
Bodine Comedies the Workers TERMS
Prospects Of an Early Resumption In
FacrOrIes-No Shut Down.
Last night Local Assembly Gill, Green
Glass Workers, met in K. of L. Hall.
Nothing but routine business was trans
acted. From advices received by the off,
cials of the Flint Glass Workers Associa-
ton yesterday there is every reason to be-
lieVe that the stubborn contest, which has
been raging since last June, between the
green glass workers and manufacturers
in the East is almost ended. AS stated in
yesterdays DISPATCH the Cohansey Glass
Works and the East Lake Glass Works
have agreed to the terms submitted by NJ.
w. Arlington, and yesterday two more tele-
grams were received here recording the
complete surrender OF two more large estab-
lishments in New Jersey. The Thomas
Bodine Glass Works, of Bridgeton, have
settled at the terms of the men, and the glass
works of Gaynor g. Co., of Salem, in the
same State, have followed suit, and in con-
sequence all workers in the glass trade are
looking for an early settlement in the whole
Eastern district.
Thomas Bodine is president of the Win
dow Glass Manufacturers Association, and
carries on an extensive business IN both
window and green glass. Tie workers
think that his surrender is significant, and
believe that all other firms will quickly fol-
low suit Moore Bros, at Clayton, have
intimated that they desired to have
conference with the men with a
settlement in view. This firm, as
well as the Whitney concern at Glassboro, Is
at present running largely non-unlon, but
the Moore Bros. are willing to start up in
regular fashion, if a compromise can be
brought about so that few of the non-union
men now employed can be retained by
them. Although the settlement In
these places is important, there are
still a large number of places which
show no disposition to start up. The report
circulated since the latter part of last week
that the green and flint manufacturers
adopted a resolution to help the Eastern
manufacturers in the struggle by closing
down all the factories in the Western dis
trict, has kept the glass workers of both Or
ganizstio in a state OF doubt since that
time. Some credence was given to the idea
that the green manufacturers might take
such a step, but many doubted that the flint
men contemplated such a move,
Yesterday DISPATCH reporter called to
see Mr.. Flaccus, a flint bottle manufacturer,
and member of the Flint Bottle Manufac-
turers' Association, In reference to the ru-
mol, and in response to the question whether
any such move was intended, the gentleman
replied: "There is absolutely nothing in
the report, as the Western flint
men have no interest whatever in
the outcome of the difficulty in the
East. We are, OF course. making large
quantities of bottles for Eastern trade, but
our ware in no way is related to the green
trade"
He also said that he could not speak for
the green manufacturers in this section,
and did not know what they would do. The
only firms in the flint trade that might pos
sibly make such a move would be those
making both green and flint bottles. The
reports show that the Eastern firms are weak
ening, and now, if ever, would be their time
to keep their promise to close down.