American Flint Glass Workers' Union & Green Glass Bottle Blowers' Association Conventions, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1903

ENGLISHMAN

TO ADDRESS

GLASSWORKERS

President Rudge, of the British

Union, Expected at Cincinnati

Convention.

The actual business of the convention of the American Flint Glassworkers' Union began Tuesday at Odd Fellows' Temple with the report of Chairman Henry Leiner, of the credentials committee, from Wheeling, W. Va.

It was announced that J. J. Rudge, of Manchester, Eng., Grand Secretary of the Flint Glassworkers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland, will address the convention.

Owing to a hitch in the arrangements, the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association, which was intended to meet with the Flint Glassworkers, in joint convention, will convene at Masonic Temple, late in the week. Next week an amalgamation of the two national organizations is expected.

President T. W. Rowe, of the Flint Glassworkers, says that his organization will no longer antagonize the introduction of glass-blowing machinery.

About 300 delegates are present.