Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1901-02-07
COMBINATION TALKED OF.
Philadelphia Papers Give Some In
teresting Rumors of the Glass
Business as Conducted in This
City-WiII it be Non-Union.

Business as Conducted in This
City viii it be Non-Union.
The Philadelphia papers this morn
ing gave what purported to be
Bridgeton dispatch, concerning the
glass business, in this city. 1t is as
follows:
Upon the authority of a leading
South Jersey manufacture it is pretty
certain that the hollow ware glass
business of Bridgeton will be con-
Quoted upon non-union principles
Every indication points to that end,
and all that the Green Bottle Blowers
Association contended for, and for
which more than 500, 600 was spent,
will apparently be lost.
"The officers Of the Association are
apparently preparing for struggle as
a special assessment has been for
some time made upon the blowers all
over the country, and placed in a
large fund for the purpose of prepar-
ing the Association financially
"While it is not certain that the
recently organized and somewhat
mysterious glass corporations have
anything to do with the plans of the
manufacturers, it is not unlikely that
they have all immediate bearing upon
the situation.
9 1t is practically assured that the
scheme of the manufacturers is to
combine the More-Jonas, Cumberland
and George Jonas companies for mu-
tual protection, and to start them
with non-union men next September.
If the Blowers Association makes a
stiff fight the three firms can consoli-
date their efforts in one plant, and
the probabilities are that the first
fight would be made at the plant of
the George Jonas Company, situated
in Minotola, the entire town being
owned and controlled by the corpora
tion.
cat the same time the Blowers
Association is at work. Several men
have been induced to leave the Mino-
tola non-union plant and join the
Organization, and it is further said
that some of the More Jonas non
union men are secretly meeting and
comforting with the officers of the Or
ganization.
"All of the manufacturers here
complain that, while the glass trade
generally is good, they are losing their
business, many of their principal or
ders having gone West because the
Western manufacturers underbid
them. This, they say, is possible be-
cause the West is supplied with cheap
coal and natural gas. The manufac-
turers claim that because of this fact
the window workers give a 10 per
cent. reduction in wages to the man
ufacturers east of Pittsburg, Pa, put
ting the manufacturers on an even
footing. One manufacturer said to-
| day that, unless there was a change
from present conditions, there would
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five years time The same manufac-
turer is authority for the statement
that there has not been, since the big
strike two years ago, as much money
paid out in wages in any of the fac
tories as there was during the non
union times. There are very many idle
shops in all of the factories at pres
ent. -
The above was shown one of the
manufacturers this morning and he
! simply said Il know nothing about
it," Pressed to discuss the matter
he refused absolutely to say another
word. Another manufacturer declined
to say whether there was anything in
the story or not.
Several of the we'll known blowers
here We're eagerly discussing the above
story this morning, some of them
were free to say that they thought
there was something in it, and fur