Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-19
Green and Flint Glass Manufacturers
Demand Reductions.
A NEW APPRENTICE SYSTEM
Demanded by the Green Glass
Manufacturers - This Point 1s
the Most Important Of All and
Means More than the Proposed
Gut in Wages The Fight for
the Secretaryship of the Flints.
spseoI 7;dscram to ns Register.


MARION, IND, July 1s.-Another
busy session of the American Flint
Glass Workers convention was held to-
day.
The Pressed Ware Committees re-
port was taken up, and all the items
asking for advance in wages on certain
goods and changes Of moves, ETC., were,
after very warm discussion, knocked
out, and the scale for pressed ware will
remain the same as last year.
The Chimney Committee reported the
addition Of two new brands OF lamp
chimneys to the list, but as the scale in
this branch was fixed for two years at
the Corning convention, there was no
change in wages, and the report OF tn Q
committee was adopted without much
kicking.
The special committee to confer with
the green glass workers now in session
at Milwaukee on the amalgamatlon
question returned TO Marion and re-
ported to the convention that no deh-
mite plans had yet been arranged.
The convention will probably adjourn
tomorrow. It's closing hours will wit
ness an exciting contest for national
secretary. Kuntzler OF Marion, Ind,
and Payne of Millville, N. D.,
still remain the leading candidates
but neither has sufficient strength to be
elected on the ballot. The New York
ers are pledged to Smith, of Brooklyn,
and the Ohio Valley delegates are stand
ing by Poth, OF Steubenyille, Ohio. 1t
is impossible to tell TO whom they will
throw their support when they break
away from their respective favorites.
There is nothing new In the proposed
reduction of wages In the prescription
branch. Officers and prominent dele
gates talk hopefully and express them
selves as confident that a conference
will be held with the manufacturers
committee soon after the session, and
the prescription scale arranged on the
same basis as last year.
A telegram received this morning
from Milwaukee by an officer of the
American Flint Glsssworkers' Union,
in session In Marion, conveys the infor-
nation that the green glass manufact'
urers have have also demanded reduc-
tion in wages, and that their demands
are for a lower cut In wages than the
flint manufacturers ask for. The
telegram's contents are very mea-
gre, but states that general
reduction Of wages on all classes Of
work is asked for, ranging from IL TO 10
per cent, and the manufacturers also in
sist that the restriction regarding the
number OF apprentices to be employed
shall also be revised.
The apprentice question is Of far more
Importance TO the green glass workers
than the wage question. 1t is what
they have been fighting for for several
years vast. If the demands Of the flint
and green manufacturers are resisted,
as in all probability they will be, IT will
result in lockouts in the two great glass
trades of the county and will be the most
extensive the country has known since
the Homestead strike. 1t will result In
throwing out of work thousands OF
skilled workmen in the East and Middle
West.
1t is thought that there may be some
sort OF compromise effected before the
time for resumption.