The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-10
GLASS WORKERS STRIKE
FACTORIES WILL CLOSE
Cutters and FIatteners Refuse
to Work Under the
New Scale.
FORCE FACTORIES TO CLOSE
Adamston Quits at Midnight AS
Will Likely All the Others
Located Here.

-S0ANS0 III Us
The local window glass factories at
this time. when there promised to be
a complete adjustment of the wage
trouble that has been pending the
last several weeks. and a fun resump-
tion of operations. are about to be
forced to close down.
The cutters and flatteners are bring
ing this new condition about, because
of their refusal to abide by the action
of the wage committee of the ANAL
gamated Window Glass workers of
America at its meeting at Cleveland
last week. in adopting sliding scale:
1t is announced that the Clarksburg
Window Glass Company win close its
Adamston factory down tonight at
midnight, as the result of the strike
already begun by the cutters and fiat
teners,
Today there are but four OF the
eight cutters at work at the Adams
ton plant and none of the eleven fat
teners, and this condition viii force
the closing down of the plant tonight.
The cutters and flatteners there are
dow Glass Workers of America, but
also belong to an association of fiat
teners and cutters and the latter as
sociation, whose members are
throughout the glass manufacturing
districts, have not only refused to
abide by the action of the AmaIga-
mated Association but also have a suit
in court for dissolution from the
other two trades in the AmaIgamated.
Some Out On Strike.
At the Peerless plant at Northview
the fourteen flatteners and cutters
went out on strike this morning.
The blowers are still at work but viii
be compelled to quit. If the strike
proceeds and the Amalgamated Asso-
c'ntlon does not furnish men to take
the places of the striking hatteners
and cutters.
At the Tuna plant the cutters are
all working, but it is on the glass
made last week. The ovens are being.
heated there. but the management
does not know whether the fatteners
will work or not. This will be known
tonight as the ovens will be ready for
the cutters and fiatteners.
The Tuna has seventeen cutters and
twelve natteners The Amalgamated
Association will be asked to fill the
places Of all of these who go out on
strike.
The blowers are at work today at
the West Fork factorS. The fatteners
have refused to work. but the cut
ters. as at the Tuna. are working on
last weeks glass. The West Fork
Will doubtless shut down tonight un-
less the Amalgamated Association sup
plies men for the places OF the strik-
ers. The management sent a request
to Cleveland this morning for three
natteners.
The strike will throw a large num-
ber of men out OF employment cause
much expense and inconvenience to
the manufacturers. and have bad
effect on trade conditions in the city.
One familiar with the strike ex-
plains the situation as follows:
The Amalgamated Window Glass
! Workers of America, made a sliding
scale with the West Virginia manu-
facturers. which it considered all
plants in the country could and would
work under and the same was signed
by the West Virginia manufacturers.
The basis of this scale is 9O-171s on
of manufacturers selling price OF
1901.
But it seems two of the trades in
the association. the cutters and fat-
teners. do not like the scale, and at
the Peerless plant the hatteners have
refused to work. also at the West
Fork and the cutters and fiatteners at
the Tuna have notified the company
that they will be done as soon as the
glass under the scale that expired last
Friday night is cut and hattened.
However. it is hoped it win be
made satisfactory to all four trades
as soon as the case in the Cleveland
court, which is being argued in court
there today. is concluded.
This case is for n dissolution OF
the four trades as the cutters and nat-
teners seem to think they can do bet
ter, if they are separate organiza-
ton"
Others identified with glass manu-