Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-27
MET AND DISAGREED.
Subj Committees of the Window Glass
Manufacturers and Workers
CONFERRED YESTERDAY ON RATES.
President Gompers, of the Federation, An
tagonized This Year.
BAR ROLLS START AT THE vESUV1US

Sub-committees of the window glass man.
ufacturers and workers conferred yesterday
on the yearly scale, but arrived at no settle
ment Something approximating dead
lock has now been reached, and the lighting
of the fires is regarded as remote.
The conference was quite accidental j..
f. Hart, of Muncie, Ind, CHANGED to be in
town yesterday, and he, with James A.
Chambers and William Loeffler, having
previously been appointed subcommittee
on the question, the occasion was regarded
as opportune for talk with the workers
An intimation of this desire was conveyed
to the corresponding subcommittee on the
other side, and President Eberhart, Daniel
Winters and H. d. Surarer, who composed
the committee, at once responded. The
conference was held in the Office of r. c.
Schmertz s. Co., and lasted until late in the
evening.
NO AGREEMENT EFFECTED.
There was no agreement effected, but the
relative positions of the parties have un-
dergone a change. At the last conference
the manufacturers were firm in asking for
a reduction in wages of 10 per cent; last
night they withdrew from this position.
The workers, on the other hand, would
make no concessions, adhering to their
demands, and insisting on the increased
pay, of about per cent, demanded for
the gatherers. The manufacturers with
drew their demand, as one of them re-
marked after the meeting, because, al
though they felt that the reduction should
be made, they were willing to let it go rather
than bring about strike.
The manufacturers are determined not to
grant the increases asked for by the men.
They say they will make no concessions
which will result in making the cost any
higher than it is to-day. 1t should be the
other way. they say. They say that to enable
the American maker to compete with the
foreigner he should be able to undersell him.
At present costs the American was just about
able to hold his own. Makers say that an
advantage in cost over the foreigner would
mean everything to them, as they could get
at the sympathy of the trade through their
pockets by underselling the foreigners
ALARGE MAJORITY IN LINE.
The subcommittee of the workers went
into the conference instructed and had no
option but to act as it did. The determination
to demand 20 per cent of the blowers wages
for the gatherers, instead of the 65 per cent,
which ruled last fire, was arrived at by vote
of the entire trade, and was carried by a
three .fourths majority, as has been
nnsy The saS sneSe acted ted
as the mouthpiece of the trnde, and could
not act without instructions. Last year they
were given discretion. 1t is difficult to say
what the next step will be. Even If the
workers were willing to reconsider their
action, no vote could be obtained within a
shorter period than seven weeks, so that the
position looks much like a deadlock. There
is scant probability of any fires being put
in by the lst. the usual time.
The condition of the trade is not very
good. The stocks are held mostly by the
jobbers, and they are not moving very fast.
Very little inquiry from jobbers is being re
ceived here, but several manufacturers hold
fair stocks and sufficient to stop good
sized gap, if It should occur.