Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
INCREASE THE BOND.
officers of the American Window
Glass Association Asked to
PUT UP A MUCH LARGER AMOUNT
For the Honest and Faithful Performance
of Their Duty.
THE DELEGATES TO TAKE An OUTING

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that it was necessary for all resolutions
touching on the business of the association
to be handed in before the close of the day
session. Immediately after the President
had taken his seat the resolutions began
pouring in and there we're so many OF them
that only few could be acted upon.
Tne first resolution of any Importance
was one asking that window glass factories
| be limited to nine months work instead OF
ten months, which is now the rule. Many
| favored this measure, but after close and
exciting vote it was defeated. Another
resolution of equal Importance was pre-
sented Immediately. 1t was to the effect
that manufacturers should be obliged to
engage their workmen 80 days before the
end of the years fire. This was also lost.
After vote had been taken upon this meas
ure the noon hour had arrived and an ad-
journment was ordered.
At 2 o'clock the delegates reassembled
and a resolution was submitted that the
term of the President and Secretary should
not extend for more than one year at time.
This was thoroughly debated, but when
balloted upon was defeated.
Resolutions Against Pinkertons.
The next resolution on the programme
was carried. 1t was to the effect that the
President and council of the association be
authorized to petition the proper guberna-
torial officers to take steps to prevent the
hiring of Pinkertons or armed detectives
by any firm or company, the same to be
utilized in fight with workingmen.
Probably the most important resolution
of the day, but which was not acted upon,
was the one which asked that the wages of
gatherers be advanced to 70 per cent for
single and go per cent for double boxes on
40x6O glass and to 55 per cent on all
double boxes over 40x60. If this measure
is adopted it will make an increase of about
10 per cent in the wages of the workmen
specified. Another important resolution
which was passed Yesterday asked that the
bonds of the President, Secretary and
Treasurer be increased from $4,000 to
SIC, 900 and the bonds of the trustees be
advanced from 50, 900 to $4,000.
OF all the above resolutions none were of
any more prominence than that which
requested the re-establishment of the
International Glassworkers Union, but it
is not expected that any action will be
taken upon this particular measure before
day or two.
An Invitation to an inspection.
During the meeting communications were
received from the Chambers Glass Com
pany and the Kensington Land Company
asking the delegates to visit Kensington,
the transportation and other expenses to be
furnished by the hosts. This invitation was
accepted. The trip will be made to-mor-
row afternoon.
Just before the afternoon adjournment
the Homestead matter was taken up. The
resolutions which were handed in were ex-
amined, accepted and indorsed. They read
as follows:
The Window Glass Workers of America, in
national convention assembled, would most
earnestly request that the necessary legal
steps be taken forth with to return to Mr..
Andrew Carnegie all the monies or securi-
ties which have been received from him for
the erection of a public library and other
buildings in the city of Pittsburg.
In common with the maj ority of the peo.
pie who are the wage workers OF Pittsburg
we are wage earners and fully appreciate
the circumstances under which Mr.. Carne-
gle has accumulated his unearned, colossal
fortune.
As an employer he has gradually and
surely so managed and conducted the iron
and steel Industries under his control as to
crush the individual manhood and power of
his employees, and subject the men who
largely contributed to the upbuilding OF his
possessions to sacrifice manhood and SUBJ
nit to whatever form OF personal govern
ment he deemed most efficient to obtain
absolute dominion over the men who are
employed in his works. The time has come
when city composed of workers should
speak and act with emphasis in refusing to
aid this man to Standardization. While
workers demand in vain security for bread
to support their wives and children they
will not be satisfied with stones and bricks
which are to compose these monuments to
the memory of Andrew Carnegie.
Objections to a Change of Date.
The system which Carnegie and his Great
ures have inaugurated, whereby their en-
pl Dyes must abandon all the voluntary
associations formed for their protection and
for the protection of their widows and chill
dren, is heartless and oppressive, in keep
ing with the proposal to require contracts
for labor to end in the dead of winter, thus
placing the employees at the mercy of the |
employer, both as to the price of labor and |
the privilege of homes for their families.
The Importation of Pinke rton thugs with
their Winchesters was a challenge to the |
of free American laborers. 1t was
clearly illegal. and the attempt TO make non |
of Pennsylvania deputy sheriffs, /
with authority to rule the people of Allie |
gheny county WAS an outrage upon the law, |
and all insult 10 the dignity of the State As |
well might Carnegie import original thugs |
from India, as from Chicago and New |
York. The wanton Importation of Pinker-
ton thugs, armed with deadly weapons
and the consequent bloodshed leav-
n and Rsss Orphans, was 0pesss great ~adDws ori%.
The iron and steel works OF this Carnegie |
Company, Limited. are largely filed with
imported non- English speaking foreigners,
filed by Americans. Many thousands Of
those imported foreigners ''hear the sound" |
Of prosperity from afar, but know not that
they are shipped across the ocean to work
for wages insufficient to maintai American
citizens. The methods which the Carnegie
Company, Limited, have used to accomplish |
their ends have done more than any other
thing toward sundering and embftterinS the
relations OF good will and common interest
which should exist and prevail between en-
ployer and employe.
Exceptions to the Carnegie Library.
Therefore, we earnestly request and de
nand that no more money OF valua BILE pub
ic property be devoted or given to the
Jumbo library for the perpetual ton of the
memory of the little man up i'll the High
ands of Scotland If he wishes monu-
nent let him endow fr with the u unearned
millions which he now enjoys. The whole
project of library and art buildings to be
maintained at the cost of the taxpayer for
Ill time is fraud on the holy name of he
1evolence. 1t cannot by any possibility cost
ess than s4o.0O year, and if the experience
# the past is any guide for the future, will
,Ost ere long several times $40, 900 each year.
Expenditures from the public purse always
ROW and fatten with time. This library
cheme is not for the people-the common
,eople-it is for the few who bask in the
unsnine of suddenly attained wealth.
We therefore humbly and earnestly hope
hat this petition will meet with your ap-
,roval, and that by your granting it you will
ndear your own names to the lovers of
light and justice and lend q new stimulus to
he cause of organized labor, the only power
destined to solve the vexed question Of the
of the interests of capital and