Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-25
GREEN GLASS TRADE.
Eastern Manufacturers Confidently
Expect a Prosperous Season.
NUMBERS OF NON-UNION WORKMEN
Will Find Employment at the Factories
in New Jersey This Year.
AGENTS ABROAD SEEKING BELGIASs
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CAMDEN. N. j., August A-By Monday
next September 1, nearly all the glass fac
tories of South Jersey will be in blast, in
ABOUT the same condition as regards the at
titude of capital and labor as when the last
blast ended. From every direction come re-
ports OF prosperous outlook for the season.
The early start in the flint branch, this
year, is indicative of good seasons busi-
ness. Stocks are light and prices are good,
and both workers and manufacturers look
with confidence into the future, as is evil
denced by recent changes in the list and the
advance in wages, which was readily granted
by the manufacturers.
In the tableware branch of the flint trade
very few factories have resumed. Among
them Gillender's. Philadelphia, and two or
three in Western Pennsylvania, but none
OF the Pittsburg tableware shops will 60 into
blast before September.
HEAVY STOCKS ON HAND.
1t is the impression among manufacturers
of these goods that the years business would
prove more profitable, on the WHOLE. if the
starting up of factories was delayed and the
summer stoppage prolonged until after the
1st of September. Stocks have been consid-
erably reduced, especially in novelties and
special sizes and shapes, but in the regular
lines stocks are still reported heavy. In
the lamp chimney branch there was a gen.
eral resumption throughout the country
during the week just closed. The officers
of the National Trades Assembly
No. 143, Z. Of L. (green glass;,
have had conferences with Moore Bros,
Clayton, and Brookfeld, Brooklyn, N. Y,
and have won victory in the latter case,
Brookfeld agreeing to run his furnaces un-
der union regulations. This is quite vic
tory for the green glass blowers, as Brook
fields is large plant and will furnish stu
ations for number of union men who were
forced to pass the last season in idleness and
depend upon the union for support. With
Moore Bros, Clayton, the men were not sue
cessful but they have not given up hopes Of
getting the factories
UNDER UNION RULES,
and expect to have another conference with
the firm this week. The apprenticeship
question is the only bone OF contention, there
being no kick over the question of wages.
The arrival of a number OF Belgian glass.
blowers in Bridgeton during the week has
caused stir in window glass circles, and !!
the New Jersey members of the Eastern Dis |
trict Wage Committee are at present max |
ing thorough investigation, and will have |
the men returned to Europe if they are not |
union blowers.
Mr.. Reuben Chew, of Millville, who was q |
delegate to this convention OF the Universal |
Federation of Window Glass Workers, re-
Gently held in Paris, says that while he was |
in Europe he discovered couple of agents |
for American manufacturers who were |
securing the glass districts of France and |
Belgium in search OF blowers. He under
stood that Mr.. Frank Bodine, of Bridgeton,
was also in Europe after workmen, but saw
nothing of him while he was across the
ocean. The
AGENTS AFTER BLOWERS,
Mr.. Chew says, wanted then for factories
in Findlay, o. Mr.. Chew says that he does
NOT look for q heavy influx of foreign
blowers, that the convention in Paris regu-
lated the matter as far as union men were
and that the officers of L. A.
300, in this country, are ample prepared for
the non-union workmen and will see that
they are shipped bac K without delay. The
scale for the next blast has been agreed to
by nearly all the window glass msnufac-
turers in the East and number of fur
naces will start up September u. Among
them the manufacturers in Baltimore and
Md, Millville, Vineland,
Quinton. Atco, Winslow, N. j., and Will
mington, Del.
Extensive repairs are being made to the
furnaces at Glassboro and Bridgeton, ex-
cept the Cohansey works, which are ready
TO go into blast and will prevent them start
ing up until later in the month.
STARTED WITH NoN-UNIoN MEN.
The Whitney glassworks at Glassboro,
which started operations ON Wednesday by |
placing non-union glass blowers in the flint |
factory, will shortly commence work in all
The greenhouses, five of which are being
rapidly sheared so as to enable them to
start by September 1. Tonight fire |
was put under a third house, and
as soon as possible the fourth house will be
started. Owing to the work which is unfin-
shed in this house a delay will be made of
about two weeks, when the entire works
will be running to their full capacity,
which will require about ITO blowers, or
about 800 hands altogether, all non-union.
These men are working on the same scale of
wages as last year, and seem satisfied.
GOOD OUTLOOK.
Manager H. 8. Beckett to-day said the
outlook for the coming season is very excel
lens, and no year heretofore has had as
bright a prospect as the one just commenced
1t Millville. Whitall, Tatum & Co. have
already started work in one or two flint
glass factories and to-day will put three
more flint factories into blaze. By Monday
next their whole works, one of the largest
in the country, will be in full operation
with all union hands.
Bennett & Co. put fire under their window
,lass works to-day, and will 60 into blast on
September 1. At Williamstown, Bodine,
Thomas & Co. started their flint glass house
his week, and yesterday one Of the green
actories went into operation. Everything
s in readiness to start third factory.
Superintendent HIlyard said to-day that
III the factories would run to their full ca
,acity, giving employment to 90 or 100
blowers, all non-union men. He said the
outlook was excellent and that the factories
would be busy until June of next year.
The
FAILURE TO SECURE STONE
or the furnaces will prevent the Monroe
Glass Company Cooperative Works, run by
blowers, at Williamstown, starting at the
ime expected. At Clayton, Moore Bros.
,ave fire under three factories which will
70 into blast by Monday next. Here, as at
non-union men will work again,
III efforts to effect a settlement with the firm
proving futile. Tillger Brothers, at Vine
and, will start up promptly on Monday
le1t, two to three weeks earlier than last |
rear, with the same number of hands. They