Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-08-29
GLASSWORKS ARE
READY FOR RUN.

with the glass business prosperous,
Bridgeton is prosoerous-in fact, ali
South Jersey will be prosperous.
Bridgeton is to have great fall and
winter trade. No doubt about it.
All through South Jersey the busy
factories start next week, as is evil
denced by the following despatch from
Millvlle:
Millvitle, N. j., Aug. 26.-At the
end of the first week in September
nearly every one of Millville's 1900
glass workers will again be working,
with prospects bright for ten months
OF steady employment. This week
hundreds of workmen are being as
signed their positions, and during the
next few days they will "rig up
their shops preparatory for the blast
On September 3 three of the largest
factories at WhitalI- -Tatum Company's
South Millville works and two large
continuous tanks of the same COM
pany at Glasstown will resume. On
september 3 four more factories will
"go in" at the lower
the remaining plants at the upper
works.
At the Millville bottle works pots
we're set to-day, and there will be a
general resumption there on Septem
her 8. Manager James E. Mitchell
states that long, steady run will be
made. At the T. @. Wheaton &
Go. S works everything Is hustle, and
the factories will be placed in opera
tion on September and 5.
AT Vineland, Bridgeton, Clayton,
Glassboro, Salem, Williamstown,
swedesboro, Absecon, Cape May Court
House and other glass manufacturing
centres there will also be early starts,
while Fairton's S works resumed to-day.
ALI of the manufacturers state that
they have on hand plenty of orders,
and some of the shops will have large
enough orders to keep them for the
full ten months without change of
ware. In Mllville and many other
sections of South Jersey the plants
will be inadequate to supply the de-
mand which will be made on them,
and Whitall-Tatum Company is pre-
pairing to increase the capacity of
their factories.
They have purchased the old North
American window glass plant, and
will manufacture carboys and other
large ware there. The mould makers
resumsd week ago, and are being
rushed preparing fer the start of the
bottle houses. The serious difficulty
of scarcity Of tending boys and dwell.
ing houses still confronts the manu-.
factures here, and the operation of
the plants will be some " hat hindered
by this condition.
Negro labor has been imported by
some of the companies about this SEQ
tion, but in Millville the manufac-
turers believe that this would not be
good policy, as the mixed help would
not, in~their opinion, do satisfactory
work, and there would be constant
friction between the employees.
Every house in Millville has been
rented, and, while families with boys
would move here, they cannot.
The blowers VIII make more money
this season than ever before, an at the
recent conference between the manu-
facturers' and workmens' committees
at Atlantic City an increase of 10 per
cent. was granted to them by their
concession to the manufacturers of
one third more apprentices. The Or
ganization will allow to the manufao-
turers one apprentice for every ten
blowers this season. This will be of
great advantage to the manufacturers.
and perfect harmony now exists be.
tween the employer and employe.