New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-29
THE GLASS WORKERS' STRIKE.
THEIR UNION STRONG AND A LONG FIGHT
PROMIsED-No MANIFESTATION

OF VIOLENCE

OF VIOLENCE.
Pttsburg, Penn. Nov % (SpeciaD-One OF the
ouietest strikes record Is that being cohducteu
by the late employees Of the United states GLASS
Company which has fifteen factories-two In "hee-
ing w Va others in Ohio and Indiana. but the
m, ioritv located in Pittsburg. 1t might be more
properly called a lockout" as the United states
Company, which represented about one-iour'h Oh
the Flint Glass Manufacturers Association nou-
fed the Flint Glass Workers Union That unless IL
permitted an adjustment OF the two months sum-
mer shutdown and removed the restriction on the
amount of work to be daily performed by each
man It would make It's factories non-union estap-
,ishments The flint glass trade has been IDLE
since June and In the ordinary course OF aiiai's
should have resumed In September but the flint
glass manufacturers were unable to obtain the
concession demanded
The leaders on both sides are brainy men. Raipn
Rapey the president Of the United States Com
Dany Is a millionaire, who has for many years
managed the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.
The president of the Flint Glass Workers Union Is
william ]. Smith. who made a special STUDY Oh
grammar under q ward school principal mere, ana
before he had abandoned the furnace had quite
local reputation for his OF the English language.
Mr. Smith now takes great interest in educational
matters is a school director In the Fourteenth
C'Chris' Magee's) Ward, and Is politically power
in that section The flint glass strikers as rule
are well-read and well-informed men, They LOOK
forward to success In the present HBh'' p''""''
they were never Ill favored with defeat ana because
of the scarcity Of skilled workmen outside 'heir
union.
The furnishings OF the headquarters Of the strKers
were given by South Side business men. VIM ne ahe
vitality interested In speedy Termination w ma
struggle Furniture, carpets books ana smokins nc.
terial all included In liberal contripuuons
new association OF fin-gass manufacturcis' .,,,o
ganiZed in this city November 16. mas nv ,, III
OF the National Association OF Pressed anu Div,
Table Ware Manufacturers, and ~ raid 10 con', 10,
Is per cent Of the capacity OF the country me we.
disruption Of the body known the Filnt ui at
Manufacturers Association and Is a notice 20 III
United States Company that the other iact nh,
will no longer remain idle to assist II In its ntn.
THE new association includes factories at Jeahe,e
Penn: Washington. Penn: Wellsburg ". ,, va
Philadelphia, New Albany. Ind. Muncie Ind r rh,o
Law Ohio; Homestead, Penn: Martins Ferry, Ohio'
Beaire. ohio. and Bridgeport, Ohio. ..,.
One of the manufacturers In the new combhation
saws tie scale agreement with the workmen ~ 10 pe
in operation until February, when further con-
ferences are to be held. BY that time either ueci
sive victory defeat Is expected to have attenue
the efforts OF the union In its fight with the taoi
ware trust" the United States Company ~
sometimes called. President Bagaley. Of the United
TO the situation. said he had sixty-eight shops IN
three factories in successful operation. lie had SUI
fcient men at call TO operate fourth factory. anu
IL was proposed to establish schools for unskiied
workmen At the same time. Mr.. Bagaley said. u
fourth factory would not be put In operation lot
summer was not expected. Mr.. Bagaley says the
COMPANY will centraiize its plants at new town;
being built up the Monongahela River, to be "ed
GlasspOrt.