The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-05
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TO REMAIN COOL
Sixteen Committees of Con
vention Here to Make Re
ports Friday.

ports Friday
Gust be, cool ana wait develop
ments. The employers have more
at stake than the workers. This
was the message given to the dele
gates by President William P.
Clark, in his report at the second
session of the American Flint
Glass Workers Union convention
here.
II am not going TO support I'M
reasonable demands put forth by
the workers to the detriment OF
the industry, nor can any act of
coercion on the part of the en-
ployers cause me to give approval
to any unreasonable demands that
they may present.
Your president has selected
for himself position in the mid
die of the road, SO to speak l
am not in sympathy with. and
will not countenance the dog in
the manger' attitude of some en-
ployers or their representatives,
neither will support the ideas
Of men on our own executive
board who are assuming rule
or ruin attitude. let the future
bring TO me what it will. .
President Clark reviewed the
unusual conditions that have con-
fronted the officers and represen-
tative men of the industry for
the past eight years. He told Of
the unrest during the four years
of the great war, and declared
that now the cry for readjust-
ment and reconstruction is caus-
ing unusual conditions which
must be faced by the workers
themselves.
Never in the history Of the
union were we confronted with a
situation over which hung SO
many clouds as now seem to hover
about us. Darkness and gloom
seem to appear on every hand.
To add to this, caustic criticism
is being heaped on us because we
did not conceed to every unreal
sonable demand for wage reduc-
lions asked for by the employers.
People whose intellect is nothing
short of blot, insofar as their
knowledge of our industry, wages
and conditions are concerned, I'M
dertake to criticise us for what
they take pleasure in terming the
-stubbornness of the glass work
ers, while others who have the
knowledge but lack the desire
as we'll as the courage to use it,
take pleasure in quoting this un-
just article and add insult to in
jury, but such men deserve more
our pity than our scorn.
President Clark continued by
giving the reports of the various
he xIrif am nj
ers and told of the unsettled con-.
ditions that prevailed. In speak.
ing of the future, Mr.. Clark said:
practically all our agreements
expire within the next two weeks
and very few have been renewed.
I have no idea what the employ
ers will do. They may close
their plants, or they may seek adj
ditional conferences and continue
to opertae pending settlement"
Mr.. Clark concluded his report
by reading some news items that
appeared in the New York Com
mercial, publication devoted to
financial affairs. The article was
reprinted in the daily papers at
w. Va, and the
workers were said to have been
unjustly criticised for the high
wages received by them during
the war.
The next important session of
the convention will be held on
various committees will be read
before the entire body.
Committees Appointed
Committees have been appoint
ed for the work of the convention
as follows:
Press Ware-Lawrence G..
Gideon, chairman; Harvey II.
Harshman, secretary; William II.
Vollman, Sr-, Henry Kass, Horace
McDaniels, Timothy O'Connell,
Chas. Russell. Daniel Schuler,
Thomas Defibaugh Guy Alexander,
William G. Leonard, John L. Con-
roy, George ]. Barrett, John E.
Curtis, Joseph Flaherty, Thomas
F. Martin, Russell Finch, Frank
Enos, Jr.. Bert Archer, Frank
Wooster. Robert Clancy, Harry p.
Campbell, Henry Roessler. Gott-
1ieb linn Harry Dewalt, George
Evans, Thomas J. Gallagher, John
f. Harvey, Clifton Vought, NJ. A.
Rowe, Charles G. Crop, Arthur
Schaefer, David Jones, Patrick
O'Toole. John B. O'Brien, John
Reed, William Van Hook, Jr., Jo-
seph List, Frank Jones d. ]. Muir
ply Harry Paxton, William J.
Denny. Albert E. Harvey. Frank
r. Anderson, J. L. Steinbrecher,
Henry Reidmiller. George Wurth-
ner, Roy Wolf, Edward Boetner,
James y. Mckay, Robert j. Car
Isle, George Geismann, Ohm Nc
Hale, Charles H. Howard, Archie