Bridgeton pioneer., 1899-08-24
NO SETTLEMENT YET.

Last Weeks Statement Did Not Amount
to Anything SO Far as Settlement
is Concerned.
Of the conference at Pittsburg, Pa las,
week, between the Window Blowers,
Committee and manufacturers, the Pitts
burg, Pa, Leader says:
It's all off. There will be no settlement
OF the wages of the window glass workers
for another month at least. It is not
likely that the manufacturers will con.
sent to another meeting with the men
until after September Is, unless President
Simon Burns and his wage COMMITTEES
notify them that they will accept the
terms proposed by the manufacturers at
the meeting in Greensburg yesterday.
The propositions made by the manufac-
turers in answer to that made bv tbe
workers on Tuesday are as follows:
mo. !. We will not consent to any
change in list, rules and usages, except
the arbitration clause, which must be
changed. We will pay the advance
asked OF cents per box to blowers for
single and cents per box TO blowers for
double, and II cents per box to gatherers
for single and 24 cents per box to gather
ers for double, and IS per cent of the
blowers wages for gathering small
double.
provided, you will agree to start all
factories at the same time and stop all at
the same time. Provided, further, that
the time for starting and stopping be
hxed to the satisfaction of the manufac
turers. Provided, also, that all boycotts
and determinations made against certain
factories during last blast be discon.
tinued.
NO. When the selling price is not
lawer than IS per cent. off the presen.
selling list of the American glass com.
pany, and not higher than 80 per cent. off.
blowers and gatherers are to receive an
advance of 10 per cent. over the wages of
last blast.
when the selling price is less than s5j
per cent. off and not more than Ss per
cent off, the blowers and gatherers are to
receive the same wages as last blast.
when the selling price is lower than
IS per cent. off and not lower than 80 per
cent. off, the blowers and gatherers are to
receive ten per cent. less than the wages
of last blast -
This with the same provisions as con-
tanned in the last paragraph of the first
proposition.
At the conference yesterday and pre-
liminary to the presentation of the manu-
facturers' propositions, Chairman James
A. Chambers, of the manufacturers COM
mittee. spoke to the workers representa-
tive as follows:
SIT is absolutely impossible for the
manufacturers to comply with the de-
mands made by you for the coming fire.
Many of the changes and additions to the
rules and usages are impracticable; others
are unreasonable, and still others are too
absurd to be seriously considered. We
have, therefore, concluded not to consent
to any changes or additions to those of
last blast with the single exception of the
arbitration clause, which we deem it nee
essary to change so that it may become
effective. Your president, Mr.. Burns,
has violated his signed obligation with
regard to this law number of times, and
we will not sign any obligation with re-
gard to this law number of times, and
we will not sign an agreement which
binds us and puts it within his power to
break or carry out as he may see fit.
"Now, with regard to the advance in
wages. 1t is true the increase you ask is
not much, about 4 per cent, over the
wages of last blast, but when you con-
slider that we have already advanced
your wages 35 per cent. within the last
tour years, and that under the Dingley
tariff you are receiving the highest wages
ever paid you, and that no other class of
workmen have received nearly as great
an advance, and are not now, even with
the increase granted them the present
summer, getting nearly as much of an ad-
vance as you have already received, it
would seem that you are asking for
something to which you are entitled. For
this reason we do not owe you an ad-
will not get it unless you are prepared
and are willing to grant us a substantial
consideration in return.
"For several years you have been using
all your influence to build up eompeti
tion for the avowed purpose of crippling
and weakening the manufacturers. The
building of new factories has increased
the capacity to such an extent that we
have been unable to run more than six
months out of the twelve. You are also
attempting to ruin our organization,
denying us the right to organize that you
claim for yourselves. We, of course, can
take care of ourselves, and have no fear
that you will succeed. With a combina-
tion of the window glass plants and the
hearty cooperation of your organization,
the would be no doubt of our ability to
command fair profits and thereby be able
to pay you very good wages. But if you
treat us as enemies and fight us, and con.
tinue to build up additional factories
when it is apparent there are more than