Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1892-12-15
THE MEN OUT.
The Firm UncOncerned About
the Action OF their Men and
Those Who Will May
Work.

The newly unionized blowers and
| apprentices of the Cumberland Glass
Manufacturing Company did not go
| to work Tuesday last, and what may
be called ''striken is ION" up at the
works.
President Louis Arlington, of Mas
sillon, o., and members of the National
| Executive Committee, Joseph d.
Troth, of Millville, and William
Launey, of Salem, were here last
night and met with the men.
President Arlington will remain
pretty closely to the men in Bridge
ton, as he stated on Tuesday, he Twill
live here.'
No order has been given by the
President or the Executive Committee
for the strike, but the men were given
the assurance that the union would
stand by the men.
Mr.. Arlington and Mr.. Troth were
asked by PIONEER reporter what
was meant by this assurance to stand
by the men. If it meant that the
union would procure places for the
strikers and apprentices who went out
and also furnish them financial sup
port If they did not obtain work. Mr..
Troth replied simply "yes," but Mr..
Arlington qualified his reply by say
ing ''We will not find places for the
men, but where vacancies are found
to be in existence we will get the men
In. We, the union, will furnish the
men financial support, and we have
the means to do So"
The men resolved In their meeting
last night that they would strike.
They claim two causes of complaint.
One is that the Cumberland Glass
Works employ too many apprentice
boys whom they take on five years
apprenticeship, and then compel them
to work at 25 per cent below the Union
list.
Their claim is that while they thus
protect the American boy by giving
larger number of them trades than the
Union rules allow, they do it at the
expense of the American man who
they oblige towork for reduced wages.
Both branches of this proposition
are emphatically denied by the manu-
facturers.
The rules of the Window Glass
Union do not allow the Cumberland
works any apprentices; the rules of
the Flint. Union allow the company
one apprentice for every twenty jour
neymen blowers, while the rules of the
Green Glass Union would allow them
one and fraction apprentice to every
fifteen journeymen blowers, or two to
every twnty four
The apprentices who have gone out
run the risk of losing their back money,
as, according to the agreement under
which they were taken, certain
amount of their wages must remain
with the firm until their apprentice
ship Is worked out, ard If they leave
before the expiration of this term they
forfeit the money held by the firm.
The boys think they can recover this
by suit at law.
The situation at the works this
morning did not indicate any distur-
bance. The four factories were run
ming and a number of the old Union
men were at work, having refused to
go out.
Seventeen shops, or 81 men and
boys have gone out.
The firm is decided in Its determine.
ton never to unionize their works.
Mr.. Elmer Shoemaker said the works
would never be unionized and the men
could stay out till doomsday. He
denied that any men were employed
at less than the Union scale of wages,
books OF which they always carried
with them, and from which they
made the wage agreement with their
men when hiring them.
They claim that the men cannot
succeed in their efforts to unionize
their works that that they will soon
see .the folly of the effort and come
back to work. The situation, they
claim, is no more favorable for the
men now than it was in their similar
effort under John Coffee three years
ago. The men, however, feel jubilant
and are very confident in Mr.. AIRING
toms ability and shrewdness. This con-
fidence seems to be well founded, as
Mr.. Arlington is very cautious end
man of superior ability.
The demand was made upon the
firm to unionize their works, by adopt
ing their book of rules and regulations
by a committee of the Union men, but
the firm would not recognize the COM
mittee nor give their proposition a
moments attention.
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