The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-09-03
TILE Are CIlAM0ROUS.
THE w'#poW GLASS INousTRY AS
THRIFTY INFANT.

1t 4. Fi3ts's'.ss.= ana sszte=s =sia- Itscif.
and xs. 1t l,ie.is for aisi.sr rrstee-
tion- y a.pes canipiseII Prsf.sses TO See
Di-as'e' ''P'ier Present DutIss-
The apap4l meeting of tho National
Associatiqr Of A1aesican Window Glass
l5iailssfsct';iess WIS recently helliia New
York. Daring this meeting toe general
state Of tie glass trade for the past
season va: eiseslssed, and it was aii-
Initted t'iAt iile i-ilnssry is in a healsh-
full ard fsiE,y i,z-csIserosrs condition.
1t Is no' ;<nlar that t.i:s industry
should be l|i. scus if high protection
can lii. - ~ sDe-ous. T!le window
t5.;:ss ts-e,Ecye been pasiug duties
.lTefasi 4. 05 per tlsIf. -
The rlniI extension of our Wind NV
glass industFy is sufficient proof Of its
fio,irssilinS Condition. Tie wage com
plittees of the window glass wors.ers OF
tie rortharn. eaAtefn and western di.s-
tricts recently met IN Wash; . xson. aud
The Philadelphia Ledger, q leading Re
publican journal. gave the following rs
part OF its report of their lneetine:
AT the reeeat meeting of the wage
committees. which w;iS presided over 5v
President Evcrhart, of L. \. $40. il was
reported that the window glass ia lrstry
is enjoying degree of prosperity
throughout the country never before
reached. and in the west alone men VIII
be required for new furnaces aud tank
factories equal to 200 additional shops.
New glass factories are also baia,, erect
ed in the south, and at present it LOOKS
as Ii ti.re viii not be elouSl blowers
IN the country 70 supply the deliaad.
ms Is sid to he tile case in the e.ste<n
district especially. where the stargiag OF
several factories IN New Jersey il nm
certain, owing to the inrbiiisr OF the
manufacturers TO secare oaoaga blowers
TO orerats ti:eIn.r
Ihe following news items from q re-
cent number of The New York Oil.
Paint aal Dcu3 Reporter are ba5 sI,eci-
mems of what appear in that paper every
week:
The new window glass factory at
Massillon, o.. is being rapidly pushed
forward to completion .
IA new tank factory for the mann
facture of window glass is being erected
at Hartford City, Ind
is being built at North Baltimore. o. 1t
viii be operated by the Enterprise COM
paily, whose works at BeHaire will be
allowe;Ito remain idle until :. supply of
fuel that can be depended upon is OBJ
taircd.r
a later number contains the following
item: the third tank furnace at the
Chambers g Mckee compaly's glass
works at .Jeannette has been mt i1lto
operation by the application of fire l.li
the charging OF the fa1k They will be
ready to blow glass at the new furnace
by Sept. |. and employment will be
given 70 go nliitionul fgIass arsaElss.ss
some OF these new men may be drawn
from Europe but it is expressly STATED
that they VIII not come under Contract
and VIII have 10 take their cllancss OF
finding employment waal they arrive
The precautiol indicated in the last
sentence here is due to the recent prosa-
cution of Jaiiies Campbell, the president
OF the Window Glass Workers associg-
ton, for contracting with Del-;an glass
blowers to come TO these same works at
Jeinnette, and who escaped conviction,
1t is believed, solely because of the lax
ness with which the government prose
cuted the case. Campbell being a pro-
tectionist orator of some influence among
the glass workers.
Campbell was before the Mckinley
committee last January to ask that con.
gress restore the duties to what thev
We're in 1888, when there was a very
slight reduction. Ee also asked for IAN
additional bracket III other words for
u special duty on the larger sizes now be-
ing manufactured. Mckinley gave tie
increased duties. but not the additional
bracket" According to the estimate of
Mchinlcy's own expert the equivalent
ad valorem rate ON the larger sizes
would be in his bill 13S per cent.
When, however, the senate finance
committee took up the bill il unceremo-
niousiy cut cut McIzinleys additional
duty, leaving the duties rs they are ut
present. which means an equivalent al
valorem of 1929 per cent. on the larger
sizes.
But Campbell is not faint hearted
man, and he has been tackiing the SEN
ate committee in defense OF McKinley's
schedules and painting pictures of blue
rum If the additional duty We're not
granted. The report says: Mr.. James
Campbell, chairman of the glass work
ers committee, argued for the main
tenance of the schedule of duties on
window glass fixed by the Mckinley bill.
He showed by statistics and the present
condition of wages and trade that the
reduction made by the senate committee
ON this line of manufacture would be
disastrous. The committee accorded a
courteous hearing, but there is no inti-
nation as to whether Mr. Ca,npbeIrs ar
guments will prove successful
This same man Campbell had paraded
before the Mckinley committee an ar
ray of wage rates Of glass makers in
Pittsburg. These rates We're very high,
owing to the cast iron rules of Camp
bells association, whereby the number
of apprentices is rigidly kept very low
for the express purpose of increasing
wages artificially. In this way he had
very satisfactory exhibition of wages
to make before Mckinley.
But how is it that Campbell now finds
that the continuance of the present duty
on glass viii prove ..disastrousy' His
cast iron association has succeeded in
shutting OFF competition from such
American labor as it does not choose to
admit to the trade and in this way wages
has been kept at high figure under