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Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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therings or for advertisers. Unique packages for con-fections or similar articles are made in endless variety.In fact, nearly everything made of glass is produced bythe Co-operative company and a list of several thousanddifferent articles and sizes listed from the display roomexhibit would not tell the whole story. Highly colored and decorated articles are made mostlyfor the tropical trade. Apparently nothing is too gaudyfor patrons in Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico and more re-mote countries of similar type. About 200 operatives are employed at the plant, whichruns day and night and seldom shuts down for morethan the two weeks provided for in the union agreement. Less than a score of the operatives are women andgirls, and fifty per cent, of the workers are skilled me-chanics, while the boys, of whom there are about sixty,may be rated as skilled, for they are apprentices learningthe trade. Wages range from $2.50 per day for the be-ginner to $7.50 for the best blowers, while a few experts xs
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Garble Camp 8? or specialists exceed the latter figure. Nine hours con-stitute a days work. A worker on one-quart bottles and helpers produceabout 300 finished bottles each turn. In the small sizeshe will run as high as 1,000 to the turn, and on the largestsizes may fall somewhat I)clo\v the v300 mark. The quartbottle is taken as about the average, some articles requir-ing more time and others less. The Co-operative Glass Co. began operations in Beaver•.lis in June, 1879, being organized by a number of prac-tical glass makers from the valley. Of these founders,most of whom took working positions in the factory,there still remain active with the company Jacob Houser,president. August Schwaller, vice-president, John E.Bryer, Robert H. Morris, John Aggeman and GeorgeBurhenn.In 1888 trade conditions made it desirable to abandon the co-operative or comnumity of interest system, union-ize the working force and do business as a limited part-nership, ihis continued until 1908, when the comp

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