Or are you aware of the kind of meeting it actually was, promoted with regular flyers and open not just to certain clubs but to Independents, as well, a scheduled repeating event (to discuss legislation in the state affecting motorcycling), and that it was only one of many such regular events that had been going on for decades?
One may lay out the most scrumptious banquet and invite guests, but you can not chew their food for them.
Nope, not laboring.....