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tion. A letter was received and read from T. V. Pow- 

 derly, Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, 

 pledging the aid of his Order in securing needed legisla- 

 tion, and the repeal of obnoxious laws. A committee was 

 appointed to act with the delegations from other States in 

 organizing a National Wheel. 



Isaac McCracken was re-elected Grand President, C. 

 A. Stuart was chosen Vice-President and R. H. Morehead 

 was again made Secretary. At this meeting, after much 

 animated discussion, the word white was dropped from 

 the eligibility clause in the Constitution and provisions 

 made to organize the colored farmers into separate Wheels. 

 The Constitution and By-Laws of the National Wheel 

 were ratified. 



HOLLYWOOD MEETING. 



The fifth annual meeting of the Arkansas State 

 Wheel convened at Hollywood on the ayth day of July, 



At this meeting nearly all the counties in the State 

 were represented. A resolution was passed asking that a 

 State Railroad Commission be provided for. Also, one 

 asking that measures be adopted to prohibit the dealing 

 in futures of all agricultural products. A committee was 

 appointed to confer with the Farmers' Alliance of Texas 

 and the Co-operative Union of Louisiana, with a view to 

 securing co-operative action in trade. The committee 

 reported a plan which was adopted. It provided for the 

 election of a State Wheel Business Agent, and similar 

 agents in the counties. Steps were taken to call all the 

 county agents together at Little Rock in September fol- 

 lowing, for the purpose of more perfectly completing a 

 plan of co-operative trade. T. J. Andrews was elected 

 State Business Agent, L. P. Featherston was chosen 

 Grand President, George Martin, Vice-President, and Col. 



