[Newspaper]
Publication: The Morning News
Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 18, no. 279, p. 5, col. 4
OFF FOR REDKEY.
Will Be a Couple Thousand
Union Glassworkers Today.
There Will Be Bands of Music and
Plenty Good Speaking in the
Interest of One Common
Cause — The Program.
At exactly 8 o'clock this morning behind the Indiana Iron Works brass band a delegation of 500 or more union glass workers will leave labor hall in the Long block and make a street parade of the business part of the city, stopping at the Lake Erie & Western depot, where the special train will be boarded for the reunion at Redkey.
The train comes from Elwood and will have a big delegation aboard from both Alexandria and Elwood, a brass band being a part of each town's delegation. It is expected that the Madison county delegation will have at least 1,000 men. Marion, Hartford City and Dunkirk will send a special train load to Redkey via the Panhandle and it is estimated that at least 4,000 strangers will attend the meeting which will be held in two halls.
Speeches will be made by the following gentlemen: President Smith of the American Flint Association, from Pittsburg; Vice-President Hayes of the Green League from Philadelphia; Ex-Secretary John Howard of the American Flints, from Wheeling, W. V.; Attorney William Sprague of Anderson and others.
The following is the list of the committees in charge from the local unions: Heimgrays [sic] Hemingrays, Albert Evans and John Dodd; Ball Bros,. John Delaney, John Murphy and John Canning; Pressers, James McCabe and J. W. Spong; C. H. Overs, Joseph Miller; Maring & Harts, Joe Kent and Charles Smith; Muncie Glass Co., Greeley Furgeson, Con Canning and John Riley; Nelson Glass Co., John Headrick and Elmer Whitehead.
The Redkey Tiemes [sic] Times says:
"The glass workers' convention to be held at the opera house and the I. O. O. F. hall in this city next Sunday promises to be a big thing for Redkey as well as for the various local unions of the Flint, Window and Green Glass Workers' Associations of the Indiana gas belt and the boys here are stirining every energy to make this meeting a success in every detail."
