The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-15
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CONVENTION ON.
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Tribute Paid National Leaders
in Report Made Before
Session Friday.

" Practically all of the delegates
to the American Flint Glass Work ',t'r'lcs
ers, Union convention which closed
yesterday afternoon, after being in
session for nearly two weeks, have
departed for their HON es The few
remaining out-of-the-city delegates
will leave this afternoon or this
evening.
Several Of the national officers,
Including President W. r Clarke
and Vice Presid ent J. NJ Gi1looly,
will leave on the afternoon train
over the Monongahela Railway Tor
Pittsburgh. from which place they
will so to Toledo, Ohio.
Ray Dryfus, delegate to the con
vention from Tiffin, o., and chair
<man Of the committee on officers
reports, paid high tribute to the
national officers in presenting the
report Of the committee to the con.
vention yesterday. He said IN part:
II wish to say few words on.
the report which is now before the
convention, and inasmuch as no
man can say that / have ever taken
up much OF the time OF this or
other conventions, / ask the dele
gates to bear with me.
sit has been my privilege for a
number OF years to be connected
with this committee as member,
as secretary, and for the last two
years as it's chairman; therefore,
believe that can speak with some
authority upon the Committee on
OFFICERS Report. Due to the fact
that this committee is one Of. the
last committees called together,
and usually at time when the
delegates have become wearied
with work on trade committees,
there is a tendency on the part or
the convention to hurry the Off
GERS Report Committee to com
pletion of it's labors, and while the
committee has always given conslo-
Grafton to the topics directly. reter-
red to it, it never has until TINS
year commenced on any portlon OF
the report not so referred, and IL IS
on this phase that I wish to com
ment.
GAS a trade unionist, am inter.
ested in all organizations and t2e
manner in which they con dtSt
their bushes, and I have noticed
that the officials of other unions
receive a great deal Of praise ana
are lauded to the skies by their.
Officers Report Committee. ana y
have it from reliable authority that
in some Organizations the Officers
appoint committees composed OF
and in some instances even go SO
I far as to write the report.
II have watched very carefully
this committees report as printed
in the proceedings of our various
conventions and in no Instance mas
there been a single word changed.
We have always dealt with the SUP
ject matter submitted to US put
never with the personalities of
i those who submitted reports to us,
and for the benefit of the record
and for the information Of those
who do not know the officers as
we know them, and this, with your
permission, is what intend to
briefly do.
"Our organizing force is com
posed Of the following: Paul =.
Martin, who was born in my home
town, Tiffin, Ohio, learned his trade
there, joined the organization IN
1881. worked in various plants in
the Machine Press, Press, and
Pressed Blank departments, and is
a member of Local Union No 10
| of Toledo, Ohio. He was elected
an organizer at the New Bedford
convention in 1917, and a such has
been a credit to himself and the
organization
1.-THE next is Joseph O'Malley,
dean of the organizing force. who
was horn on the South Side of
Pittsburgh in the state OF Pennsyl-
vania. He was initiated into the