Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-20
WILL GO IT ALONE.
The Rejected Glassworkers to Organ
ize q Union for Themselves.
TWO THOUSAND GLASS EMPLOYEES
will Join in the New Movement for Their
Mutual Protection.
STATUS OF THE RAILROAD STRIKE

A new union of glassworkers IS being
organized in Pittsburg. The employees
about glass houses for years have been
knocking for admission at the locked doors
of the flint and green glass associations, and
for as many years have they been refused.
At last, in despair, they propose to band
together under the name OF the Glass House
Employees Association. They believe that
BY this means they can form an organiza-
tion strong enough to compel recognition at
the hands OF the owners OF flint, window
and green glass houses, and secure just
compensation for their labor. To this end
meeting has been called on July IA, to be
held in Exchange Hall, South Twelfth
street.
The branches of labor expected to be
represented at this meeting are the packers,
etchers, decorators. teasers, grinders, pun
tyers, smoothers, fatteners (not those en-
ployed at window glass houses), and gen.
eral glasshouse laborers. 1t is believed
that such an organization would contain at
least 1000 members, il all the employees OF
these classes in glass houses could be in
duced to join the new organization. On this
subject glass house teaser said yesterday:
REFUSED FOR YEARS.
"For four years the teasers, mixers and
packers have been vainly trying to induce
the window, flint and green glassworkers'
organizations to admit them, as they desire TO
be strong union men. This the leaders of these
organizations have refused. although the
teasers and mixers have always stood by the
so-called skilled workers when the latter went
out on strikes, well knowing that no benefit
would accrue to them. even If the glassworkers
did win.
1.-THE glasshouse packers three times applied
for admission into the American Flint Glass
Workers Union-at Hamilton. Ontario, At
lantic City and Canton, o. After being refused
the last time they decided not to ask again and
be refused. In different cities they have organ
lzed local unions of their own, the latest being
at Baltimore.
THE reason the packers were refused at
Canton was because the Flintworkers' Union
had taken in the cutters mOldmakers and en-
gravers, who were not entirely organized at the
time. BY taking them in in this condition it
placed the entire burden of building up the or
ganization of these classes of glassworkers
upon the blowers who were then in a compar-
atively settled state The cutters were striking
IN many shops and to settle these difficulties
the Flint Glass Workers Union had much diff
Guilty. The officials, therefore. to avoid similar
troubles told tho glass packers that they could
not admit the latter until two-thirds of the
were refused, the flint glasswoIkers took
in the Bohemian glassworkers, and
this fact together with the agitation
which the eight-h0ur movement has brought
about. has encouraged the packers to. strive
earnestly to build up their organization. A
general sentiment in favor of organization ex-
lists throughout the glass trades in this respect.
THE glass and china decorators, who are
skilled workmen. are now moving to form an
organization, and the object of the convention
is to unite all these embryonic organizations,
with the object Of being eventually taken into
the flint glass union"
A GENERAL GLASS CONSOLIDATION.
In commenting on the move the Consmoner
and GlassWorker will say:
The different departments OF skilled and un-
are about to make grand effort toward organiza-
ton. The packers have for years been striving to
unite, with more or less success. A convention
has been called for next month at which time
more solid. The object is to take in all those at
present not eligible to membership in any of the
largo unions This is step in the right direction.
There are large number of decorators. packers,
etchers. puntyers. smoothers, grinders and fiat
teners and other kinds of labor, to which an
organization would be greatly beneficial. While
a separate union of their own, that object might
be facilitated by going ali together at the
start. The ultimate object is, of course to con-
meet with the A. f. q. ". u, L. A. $40. or ID.
federation, and we believe that the time is not far
distant when all those employed in the glass busi
ness will be in one body Many of the most con-
servattve members of these organizations hold
this view. A combination of window. plate.
green, flint and miscellaneous glass workers would
be q strong one indeed, and, while the advant-
ages Of amalgamatlon might not at first seem ap-
parent still u little study will reveal much. The
plate workers not the best organized people in
the country, and they might find il beneficial to
send delegate to the convention in July.