The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-02-05
STRIKERS WIN
Local Glass Workers Receive
Word That All Kansas
Factories Signed Scale

$50
The WINDOW glass workers Of the.
chs are iabliant over the otticIai re-
port q the erect tiiat q the window
Glass factories IN the STATE Of kansas
had signed the scale and that work
would resume there atsoaee.
the following report of the victory
there IS clipped from eofteeyille.
Kansas, paper:
The window glass workers Of KAN
sas nave won their battle and by the
fifst OF theweek practically every win
dow glass factory in the state VIII be
IN operation,
The latest companies to sign the
scale, are the cafreeyflle Window Glass
company and Kansas Window Glass
company OF this clty. One manager
j. g. Heller, stated. early this after
non that his company had decided to
pay the scale which has been in effect
since December 90 and. resume opera
tions as soon as possible. This VIII
probably be Saturday night 1t is the.
intention Of the company to start at
that time, putting all its pots into
operation. His company signed the
scale late this afternoon.
The Kansas Window Glass company
WIN now put half of its pots into
operation, also BY Sunday night and
the sunfower window Glass company
win comence operations by the middle
of next week. This latter plant is to
put al pots into operation. The9snn-
flower factory is a new rebuilt plant
and has not operated since IT has been
rebuilt. Although the factory was fin
ished since the strike went into effect
the company started the fires and have
had them running since that time,
pending settlement.
The resuming of these window glass
factories will give employment to
more men than were employed before
the strike as the sunfower factory is
added to the list,
As. stated in the Chronicle yester-
day Cheyenne Window Glass company
of caney has signed the scale. That
plant was put into operation at 8
o'clock this morning, running full
force, all pots being run
A phone message from the manager
of Baker Bros in caney this after
noon informed the Chronicle that that
plant would probably resume work.
The manager said that he had wired
the directors in the east relative. to the
situation and asked for further advice,
On account of the storm the telegraph
wires We're not working between here
and Kansas City and he had not then
received a reply. He was of the opfn-
ion that they would advise him to sign
the scale and resume
The Old caney Window Glass COM
pany has not yet signed up, but 1t was
unofticially stated this afternoon that
they would. They had held and given
out the Information this morning that
they would not resume but their fires
are still running and 1t is generally
believed that they will follow the ac-
ton of the other plants.
The employees of these various fac
tories are all smiles today. They feel
that they have won a just fight. They
asked no more than what they believed
to be fair scale and one which the
manufacturers could pay withou in
jury to themselves. They have won al
clean business like fight and are to be
commented in theft quiet way in I'd.
vancing the proposition. They were
firm from the outset and having thor
oughly decided not to so to work until
they got the scale. they carried it
through to victory. The manufac-
turers likewise conducted their end Of
the fight along tn same line, but know
ing that the scale was too low they
could not very well hodl out indefi-
Enitely Different manufacturers stated
in the beginning that they knew that
the men should draw more money. but
that they were not in a position 10
pay the scale until the selling agency
was organized to keep the price of
glass at a reasonable selling price that
would allow them profit over the
scale asked for. Nothing has been
said about this selling agency recently
and it has not been made public whe.
.ther or not it has been consummated.
|, The starting of these plants means
that almost u thousand people Will
lie given employemnt in the country
now, who have been without work
since the strike went into effect on
December 90 The scale affected the
blowers, flatteners and cutters and
gatherers.