Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1900-08-16
IN FEW WEEKS FIRES GO IN.
Demand for Glass Promises to be
Great.

teners will come to an agreement
with the manufacturers and then all
the various trades will be ready for
the fall season. The first of Septem-
Der will witness the resumption of
work in nearly all of the window
plants and green glass factories in
the country. There is already such
a demand for men of all branches of
the trade that there is bound to be
scarcity of men, as the employers are
signing contracts with best men every
day. There are over three hundred
apprentices come out of their time
this year, and with one apprentice
for every ten blowers, way is being
provided for more blowers in the
very near future.
The outlook for the glass trade in.
Bridgeton is good. Before September
is two weeks old almost every hollow
ware furnace in the city will be
filled, and with the exception of the
More-Jonas plant every factory will
be under union regulations, the men
getting the highest wages ever paid
the trade and getting that money in
cash. The big Cohansey tank will
start up on the sixth of September
and from that time until the follow
ing June, there will be plenty of
work at big wages.
! Another advantage of all this in
dustry in the glass business is the
demand that will be made for un-
skilled labor 1t will come just at a
time when the paving of the streets
will be pushed and Traction Com
pany is making great improvements,
and everybody will be fully employed.
1t will make Bridgeton take on
good, wholesome boom.
Scores of Bridgeton glassblowers
are already packing their trunks and
preparing to go hence to work.
These good men have work in yari-
Gus places all over the country, and
Canada. One or two have already
started for the Pacific slope. Win
dow glass blowers generally will re-
main at house. although several have
been employed to go to various in
dependent firms. All of those who
have signed contracts with the Amer
lean Glass Company, are to remain
here.
The Window Glass Trade.
The COmmoner and GlaSsworker,
official organ of the workmen, says
in it's last issue:
"Despite emphatic assertions by
the American Window Glass Co.
that they have no understanding
with President Cake, of the Flatten-
ers, it is generally felt that there is
an understanding between the Amer
ican and Cake by which Cake and his
committee will hold off until the last
moment before starting the fire Sep
tember l, and then sign at last
years wages. By this means, the in
dependents will be worried to the
last, and those who want to start
early, kept out for time.
Conditions seem to Justify this
theory. The American must start
September /, or prices will go up and
the independents get good chance
to unload. The American wants no
factional fight among the workers,
and this course would let both them
selves and the Flatteners out nicely,
though the l.. A. 300 wage commit
tee is getting suspicious and might
resent the trick. The fact that the
American has made no particular
effort to secure men to take the fiat
tenerS' places, adds strength to the
belief that there is such DEAL
'There is no question but what
the American will start blowing Sep
tember /. 1t is officially announced,
that orders went out Thursday to
light all tank fires to-day. It seems
just as certain that f1atteners will
not get more than last years scale.
which this fire amounts to 2815 per
cent. of blowers wages as against rs
last fire. With these facts assured,
the lack of effort on the Americans
part to make sure of flattening
force is what leads to the belief that
an understanding has been reached
with Cake.
''The L. A. 300 officials are getting
suspicious and the wage committee
has been in session this week with
the American committee trying to
get the mystery explained but with
poor success. One outcome of these
meetings is the assurance that the
independents will not likely be him
dered from starting Sept. by want
of the l.. A. 300 scale, as the COM
~Nittee have about determined to
insist that the American sign the
IA. l.. a. naGSene[S rs o,sSa scaie at last year