The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-05-06
Men in the Hand Glass Factor
les According to Edward
H. Kintzer.

Edward VI. Kintzer. OF this city, who
is a correspondent for The Glasswork-
er, has the following to say concerning
the glass business and the probable
extension OF the present blast in the
window glass trade:
Whatever benefit the window glass
workers may hope TO gain by an eX-
tension Of the present blast, which Of
necessity from several points Of view
must he short in duration, cannot by
any manner or means be as great or
as much as they are likely 10 lose by
such an undertaking.
II the market is not all that 1t is
hoped to be by every manufacturer
and each glassworker, to undertake
an extension OF even four weeks is
likely to bring disaster in several DIFF
ferent ways. 1t would be encouraging
the machine plant people to continue
tlteir operation throughout the sum
iner, dlsrespecting the combined inter
ests OF the hand and the machine
plant people; and they will point to
the cause. saying that the hand-plants
broke faith with them. The machine
plant people can. and likely would,
run, when the mouth blowers are
physically unable TO do so. What hope
TO defeat the machine-plant can the
hand-plant people entertain but false
one? We are past the point where
ridicule and jest for the machine blow
er is either entertaining or sane. What
better evidence Of the possibilities OF
the machine need there be other than
the experiences OF the last few years
have taught us? Behind the machine
stands the menaCing specter OF gloom
for every hand-plant manufacturer
and every window glassworker. You
will either make terms with that ap-
partition or run the short course there
people and quit.
Besides, there is left for the work
crs only one way to insure themselves
an early start next fall and an in
crease in the wages. or scale. and that
is not to produce the glass during tie
heated season that is in demand al
present; II they do, during more fav-
orable seasons they will not have the
opportunity TO produce 1t, should the
market not hold out. Let the workers
estimate. or calculate il they can, how
many boxes Of window glass they can
o, may produce in the month that they
might work beyond the terminating
point OF the present blast, and let
tfem relate that to an unknown guam
tlty and it will he seen how large
n club may be conveniently place in
the hands of the manufacture to beat
down the wage scale next summer.
II the wage committee OF the workers
cannot be truthfully referred to bulg-
ing warehouses Of unsod product they
might do better in making scale for
an entire blast than in knowing that
enc months product in the heat of the
summer has caused additional hard
ship in binding them to poor scale
for seven months Of the next fire"
There is going to be just so much
window glass used Just so much
and no more. II depends now upon
the workers when they are going to
make it, II 1t is left for the manu-
facturer to say when 1t is to be made.
why. Of course. he will say now.
He can afford to carry it for no
other purpose than the salutary effect
It will have to lower the wage scale
for the next fire
The supply cannot accurately &c
gagged by what the manufacturer Las
in his warehouse; neither can the de-
mand for the commodity be safely re-
lied upon by what well-known brok-
erage company has under orders. con-
siderlng, at least, that much of it, if