Alfred Meacham has been visiting other locals in the gas belt

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The local correspondent of the Commoner wrote his paper last week as follows with reference to the Flint Convention next week:

“The committee of arrangements are still hard at work arranging to have everything in proper shape to make the stay of the delegates and visiting members during the convention one of continual enjoyment. Bro. The Alfred Meachem has been making a tour of the gas belt visiting sister locals and assuring the committee what number of the visiting locals and other organizations will be present upon the opening day and take part in the grand demonstration of organized labor. Meachem reports grand success along the line, and from all indications the opening day of the convention in the “Magic City of Indiana will be one that will be long remembered throughout the glass trade.

“The headquarters of the committee of arrangements at present is a place of business, at least one would think so to see the different committees at work with their coats and hats laid to one side and planning to make the very best of everything and see that nothing is left undone to make the convention one of continued success. The committee, in order to have things convenient have had a telephone placed in headquarters, and can be communicated with by calling old line phone 152.

"The committee on demonstration report everything in good shape for grand time, and the committee on convention hall art making the very best of arrangements for the comfort of the delegates. The committee on entertainments will have quite an abundance in their line to display in the way of pleasure. The press committee are kept busy looking after press matters and the committee on hotels and furnished rooms have everything in ship shape and will be able to take care of all who desire to visit during the convention at a nominal figure. The committee on flags and bunting will have something in the way of a surprise for the delegates — something that has never heretofore been seen at a con­vention. The soliciting committee is one of importance, and to say that they are doing their work well is a mild way of putting it, for they are hustlers from away back, and like all the committees, they work hand in hand.

"We must say, in our opinion, the committees in general would be hard to duplicate, as they all work together and allow nothing to come in way of dissatisfaction among them, but all work to the best interest of the common aim — to make the twenty-second A. F. G. W. U. convention the best ever held."