Babies and bourbon drinkers were faced with the same problem last week. The supply of containers from which they get their nourishment was being rapidly diminished because of a strike by the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Glass Bottle Blowers Association. The walkout by 44,000 employees had shut down 102 plants across the country that supply 90% of the nation's glass containers.
The strike, which has put such companies as Owens-Illinois, Brockway Glass and Anchor Hocking temporarily out of the glass business, started seven weeks ago and came after union and industry negotiators had agreed on a new three-year contract that would have provided a...
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