Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1890-08-28
GLASSWORKS RESUME.
NON-UNION MEN VILLA
TOWN.

! NON'S NUN MEN AT WILL DaAs.
TOWN.
Glass Works in South Jersey Re-
s"mins Operations. What ts.s,
''Ledger" says.
The :Phila. Ledger Monday morn,
ing, publishes the following Interest,"
Ing news to glasswork ere:
Bodine, Thomas & Co.. of Wi,liams
town, started their flint glass houses
last week, and on Saturday one OF the
green glass houses went into h,as.
Everything is in readiness for th..
third house which starts to dsv
mere Is one more factory which will
go into blast about the middle CT Sen
tember. IAN the factories will be r,xs
as last year." said Manager Hillian,1
WHO mas oeen connected with the Bo-
oine works for seventeen years.
he regards the outlook of the glars
business for the couing season as.
1alrly good. He said the factoria.
~ouio all be run with non-union mem
ana tne wages world be the same az
paio last year, which are the same 10.
Tue union men received prior to the
s'rihe. Ihe entire factory gives em-
ploy ment to about 800 men and boys
VI THIS number about So are blowers
VINO mad previously worked more or
less at the eiassworks. Only a few,
Journeymen are working in these fac
tories, they coming from Pittsburg
and the West.
Inc Monroe Glass Co., Limited, a.
cooperative factory, which was ere ct
eo oy union blowers last Fall, expects
to start about September 10. The
allure to get furnace stone for a new
furnace has put the factory back
ABOUT two weeks. ]. Hand, manager
SAID yesterday that the factory win
make mostly drug ware, and that the
coming season promises to be good
one Tor the g'ass trade, there being
/ more orders on hand than can be filed
during the coming fire. The gener-
al outlook for this season is good. A..
large number of union blowers from
Wlillamstown, it is stated, will 60 10
salem, Miilville, Camden, Augusta.
ua., and points in the South.
AT MILLvILLE.
bennett q Go. put fire in their wiz
dow glass works at MillviIle Oh Satur.
day. and will go into blast September
lst, Whitall, Tatum s. Co. will put
three more flint glass factories into
blast to-day. The Standard Glass
Company, Woodbury., will only DIE
one window glass furnace in,o blast
September 1st. J d. Troth, of the
Executive Board OF National Trades,
assembly No. 143, said yesterday that
the outlook in the green glass trade
was never better than this year, and
that 25OO union green glass blower s
Will be at work by the end of the firss
week of September.
Mr. Reuben Chew, President of the,
Millville City Council, who recently re-
turned from Paris, where he attended
as one OF the three American delegate 8.
the session of the Universal Federation
OF Window Glass Workers, says that o
good many workmen will arrive in
this country late ia August who NAV
be mistaken for Belgian blowers cou-
ing over under c2ntract, but who are
foreign workmen who have resided in
America for several y, ars, and TOOK
advantage of the summer shut down
OF the factories to visit their old homes
in Europe.
As the result of an investigation be-
Ing made by the New Jersey members
OF the Eastern Window Glass Workers
Wage Committee, it is stated that the
Belgian blowers who recently arrived
in Bridgeton FROM Europe. are non
union men, and members of the COM
mittee state that they are almost sc.
tain that the men came over undzp
contract. One of the men, it ;rssald,
has beeu recognized As one of'JGe seven
blowers who GAZE 2ysr,under contracs
lasts1 uns, ana was raaSaaflsgIq Eusgp e
oy the Collector OF the %1ft6fISs%.
York.
These men are all from Cbarle...;
6eigium, and the uuiou glass work, :. =
Claim that they have received a q a,
munlcatlon from the branch of .n,.
Uniyerss Federation of Window Gl 8
Workers In Cnar.-ro', stating THAT The.
men nao started for America I'm !. y
cohtract, ana that several more h.v.
Ueen nired and are Gu heir way h.aa
me Wage Com,nittee is hunting p,
more information in regard to the IN. ~
being under contract, and will nav.
oo onem sent back immediately if g..
can get proof. If tney attempt to W TX.
in any factory the union men, y, =.
stated will be cal ed out
Inc Cohansey Glass Works, Brig -
ton, where it is supposed these r. ;.
gians are engaged to work, has ,i..-
Aeac An largest window glass pial. Il.
Amerlca; 1t cost $l50,0O0 and ~,..
finished last March. There has s-,..,
trouble there since that time. the