The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-09-21

OF THE WAGE
SCALE MADE
AS a Result of the Americans
Reducing the Prices
of Glass.

Reducing the Prices
of Glass.
n FITTsBuRG, Pa, Sept. 16-Th'
Glassworker says that at the wagt
conference held at Cleveland, O..
last week reduction of thirteen pei
cent off the Cleveland scale was ac
cepted by the workers representa-.
tives on single strength the first
bracket has been changed from
forty-four cents to thirty-nine cents
for A quality. Gatherers are to re-
ceive eighty-two and one-half per
cent as much as blowers instead OF
eighty per cent. On double strength
the reduction figures eight and one
half per cent below the brackets
specified in the Cleveland scale. The
new scale is operative from Septem-
Der ., 1911, to May 90, 1912.
The following clause governs the
future operation of the scale:
For every point of discount glass
sells below 5000 single strength
and 9O-4O double, wages are to be
reduced one per cent, and for every
point of discount glass sells above
5000 single and 9O-40 double,
wages are to be advanced one per
cent until prices average 9O-25
single and 9O-35 double. After
these discounts are reached wages
are to be advanced two per cent for
every point of discount glass sells
above 9O-25 single and 9O-35
double"
in expressing himself on the pres
ent situation President Newman, OF
the workers organization, is quoted
as follows:
I'VE are surely having a hard
struggle trying TO maintain living
wage and / trust in some manner it
will be. possible for machine and
hand manufacturers to get together,
so that the present policy, which is
SO ruinous to all concerned, will be
changed for one under which it will
be possible for the different interests
to receive what properly belongs to
them"
1t will thus be seen that the re.
cent price cut of the American Win
dow Glass Company has practically
availed them nothing. 1t is COM
mon report in glass circles that the
amount of glass unloaded after the
announcement of lower prices was
very disappointing and, with the
lower wage rate now in effect in
hand factories, the position of the
machine people has not been bet
tered-rather to the contrary.
The hand plant men are, as
rule, meeting the new quotations
and the statement made last week
by this paper to the effect that the
cut was ill-adysed, to say the least,
is reiterated, the developments dur
ing the last week having proved
this assertion. The cut was not
hailed with great acclaim in many
sections, and has only served to halt
the advent of better conditions. De-
mand Is comparatively light and until
the market again adjusts itself there
will hardly be any material improve.
ment.
Last Wednesday the Licking Win
dow Glass Company at Uutica, O.,
put the fire out in its Licking fac
tory and started its Central plant
Thursday. Fire has been placed in
the tank at the New Bethlehem
Window Glass Company's factory
and start will be made next week.
The Sunfower plant, at Coffeyville,
Kan, will also early next week.
Several other hand plants will re.
sumo at once and the latest price
play of the big machine interests is
thus robbed of its effect in another
direction. The hand manufacturers
and workers are in the game to stay.
They have thus far met or antici-
pated every move Of the American
and it is about time for the ma
chine people to get wise to the fact
that those who make handmade
glass refuse to be driven out of the
business.
"a demurrer has been filed by the
Imperial Window Glass Company in
the Lemon case, but argument has
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