The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

The Glassworkers' Lockout.

Pittsburgh Gazette of yesterday.

In accordance with their action on Friday, the proprietors of the flint glass factories on Saturday put out the fires in their furnaces, which they had kept banked for a week or more in the hope that the workmen would recede from their refusal to abide by the terms of the "notice" of the 7th. In order that no misapprehension may exist as to the cause of the lockout, we republish the notice. It is as follows:

"In order to remove all cause for misunderstandings and unpleasant disputes, which have become very frequent of late, in regard to the numbers to be made for a turn of work, and also in regard to our manner of conducting business, which unquestionably is our affair, and not that of the hands,

"We hereby give notice that we will hereafter pay pressers, finishers, handlers and gatherers by the hundred, and require five hours' work for a turn.

"That we will make such articles as our trade may demand, and work such moulds as we desire.

"We will hire or discharge, as may be for the best interests of the factory, and will not submit to dictation in any form."

The Glassworkers' Union, at meetings held during last week, arranged a new list of "moves," with a scale of wages, under the belief that it would be acceptable to the firm of McKee & Bros., and hoping by this means to keep their factory in operation. The list was presented, but withdrawn, when it became known that the firm would abide by the action of the Manufacturers' Association. The workmen of George Duncan & Sons also express willingness to go to work under the new list, but their offer was declined, as the manufacturers were fully determined to resume work only upon the conditions they had prescribed. The Glassworkers' Union was in session yesterday, but what action, if any, was taken could not be reliably ascertained.

The factories suspended are eleven in number, employing one thousand three hundred hands and paying out weekly over $15,000, and embrace all the flint glass establishments in the city but two. The names of the firms are: Atterbury & Co., Adams & Co., Doyle & Co., George Duncan & Sons, Crystal Glass Company, McKee Bros., King, Son & Co., Bryce, Walker & Co., Campbell, Jones & Co., Ripley & Co., and Richards & Hartley.