Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-11-23
LABOR MEN AS
TRUST DIRECTORS
Glass Trust Acts For
Advance of Their
WOrkmen.
ALLOWED TO BUY STOCK
PAID FOR BY DIVIDENDS
No Labor Troubles" Known in This
Trustee Increased Expense
Accepted for LaborerS
Convenience.

Pittsburg, Pa. Nov. lO--At the meet
ing of the Board of Directors Of the
American Window Glass Company,
known as the trust. to be held next
week, a vacancy on the board will he
filled by a member of the Window |
Glass Workers Association. l.. A. 800
knights of Labor. The candidate was
selected at the meeting Of the Execu-
tive Board of the workers organiza- |
ton last Saturday, but his name Will
not be made public officially until he
has been seated on the trusts board.
1t is generally concede. however, that
Simon Burns, the President of the
Workers Union, has been decided up.
on.
The blowers and gatherers this year
made the earliest settlement of the an.
nual wage scale in the history Of the
trade organization. BY 'lany II Is con-
sidered the most favorable settlement
as one Objectionable feature was elm
mated. For years when the workers
union met the individual manufacture
ers annually with its wage demand, 1t
was urged that the blowers and gather
ers be relieved Of paying the snapper
boy who Is required to assist each
blower, but this part Of their demand
was always rejected. This year when
the Wage Committee met the combtn-
alton of the leading manufacturers the
request that the company pay the snap
per was made, as had been the custom
for years, but this time, to the surprise
of the workmen, the request was grant
ed. BY the new arrangement addition
al expense is put on the trust in the
making out of the pay roll for the
thousands of snappers employed
The representative $ of the trust
who met the Workers Committee TO
arrange the annual wage scale also
caused surprise by offering the
workers stock in the concern on most
| favorable conditions. II was ANNOUNCE
ed that II the blowers and gathers
would go to work early In Septembe",
which was two months before the usual
| time for beginning the annual blast or
fire" after the summer shutdown an
additional inducement would be offered
in the wey of stock.
II was agreed to give l.. A. 300,
knights of Labor, the organization OF
the workers. 5000 shares OF stock, the
par value of which Is 800, at s27 a
share. which was to be paid for from
the dividends. II was believed that II
the men would assist the company to
man all its pots with the skilled men
that compose the organization the
stock would soon be paid for In divl-
dends, that this would result In the
stock being advanced to par and would
mean an addition of 100000 to the
treasury of the workers organization.
There are four skilled trades in the
window-glass industry, represented by
the blowers, gatherers, cutters and fiat
teners. One blower and one gatherer
are required for each pot, so that OF
the skilled workers employed 10 per
cent. are blowers and gatherers. These
belong to the Knights of Labor, while
the cutters and flatteners have separate
organizations and are affiliated with
the American Federation Of Labor.
No Democratic spellbinder can con
vince the window-glass blowers that
trusts are bad thing. Until the trust
was organized wage disputes proceedcI
4 every fire." now, 1t is expected, wage
settlements will be effected with littl'
waste of time. The workmen are max
ing the best wages known since the
flush times following the Civil War
and their organization will be enriched
by the dividends from the trust stock
Union dues will be cut down and the
!. trust itself will practically be helping
to maintain union of its workmen
The gospel of hate" will fall on dea
ears, so far as the glassblowers arr
concerned, for they have had actua
experience of the "soullessness" u
trusts and have not suffered from II
: The statement was made that tn
trusts offer to sell stock was intende,
merely as a blind, but the trust ha
: kept faith.
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