Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-08
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING
IOWA FEDERATION OF LA.
RoR BEGINS TOMORROW
DELEGATES ARRIVING
Meeting Of Credentials Committee Held
This Mornins-Presle'ent A. L. urlck
and Secretary J. II. Strict in City
Indications Point to Large Attend
anoe.

From Mondays Daily
The keys of the city Of Ottumwa
Will tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock be
turned over to the Iowa State Fedora
ton Of Labor, which at that hour
opens its fourteenth annual conven-
ton in the A. o. U. w. hall. Thirty
delegates have already arrived in the
city as forerunner of the 160 to 200
delegates expected. The credentials
committee is in session today at the
Ballingall, passi.g upon the certifi-
Gates of delegates, requisite to seats in
the convention.
Much Work In Sight.
A. L. Urick of Des Moines, president
of the federation, and J. H. Strict Of
Sioux City, secretary ry-treasurer Of the
federation, together with other prom
inent labor men are here. President
Urick and Secretary Strict are busily
engaged in finishing up the work of
their respective officers prior to the
convention.
Delegates Of organized crafts in the
state Of Iowa, who will be present at
the convention this week will partici-
pate in matters of vital Importance to
laboring men. Questions will come up
for discussion and disposition that
mean much to organized labor through
out the state. While the ways and
means committee, in whose charge the
arrangements for the meetings were
left, has provided plenty of amusement
for the delegates, there will also be
plenty of work to be transacted. The
convention will act on everything
transpiring since the last meeting In
Council Bluffs. Reports from various
officers, unfinished and new business,
annual election of officers and selec.
ton Of place to hold the next annual
convention are some Of the important
happenings of the convention.
The convention will open tomorrow
morning with L. L. Lightner, president
Of the Ottumwa Trades and Labor as.
sembly in the chair. The address OF
welcome will be delivered by Hon. Fl,
L. Waterman. A. L. Urick, president
OF the state federation will respond.
The general order of business will fol.
low.
Decorating City.
In almost every business house this
afternoon posters and banners upon
which were announcements of the
convention have been placed IN con
spicuous places Members of the
ways and means committee canvassed
the. business district this morning
with pennant shaped flags and post
ers. This afternoon the A. O. o. w
hail is being appropriately decorated
for the convention. The handsome
badges have arrived and are ready for
distribution among the delegates.
Predicts Successful Meeting.
George j. Pickett, chairman of the
ways and means committee in charge
of the convention, and also chairman
Of the committee on credentials ap
pointed by President Urich is conf
dent this years convention will ex
ceed those previously held by the fed
Grafton. He said: Every arrange
ment is made for the re
ception and entertainment ol
our guests. The business men
have responded literally to our
call for funds necessary to the sue
cess of the convention, and with the
prospect for a larger attendance than
last year, we feel confident that the
fourteenth annual meeting will exec
all others"