The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-18
new PLAN TO
BE TRIED
CONFERENCE BETWEEN CAPITAL-
IsTs AND LABOR LEADERS PRO-
DUCTIyE OF GOOD RESULTS
INTERESTS TO BE HARMoNIzE1
Committee of Thirty-six, Represent
ing Capital, Labor and the
Public to Work Out
the Scheme.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND ON LIST

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE conference
between the leaders of labor and capital
closed today with a decision to give the
plan to harmonic their divergent inter-
eStS q practical test. 1t was unanimous
ly agreed that the working details of the
scheme shall be perfected by an execu-
tive committee of thirty-s six to be chosen
in equal numbers from the ranks of or
ganized labor, the great industrial and
financial leaders, and such of the public
not identified with either of the otner
two interests.
In the afternoon Chairman Oscar S.
Strauss and Secretary Ralph M. Easily,
with Archbishop Ireland, Senator Hanna,
Samuel Gompers,. President Mitchell, of
the United Mine Workers.: Frank d.
Sargent, of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen, and others who had taken
part in the conference met to select the
members of the executive committee.
After several hours of consultation, the
following names were announced:
To Represent the Employers and
and Capitalists:
Senator Mark A. Hanna; James A.
Chambers, president of American Glass
company, Pittsburg, Pa; s. III. CaHaWay,
president American Locomotive works i;
Lewis Nixon, president and owner OF the
Crescent shipyard, Elizabethport, n. j.;
Charles M Schwab, president of the
United States Steel corporation; ii. II.
Vreeland, president Metropolitan Street
Railway company, New York; Charles a.
Moore president of the Machine Manu-
featuring company; John D. Rockefeller
Jr.; E. D. Ripley, president Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railroad, Marcus M
Marks, president National Association OF
Clothing Manufacturers; julius Krutt-
schnitt, general manager Southern Pa
cific railroad.
To Represent Arganized Labor:
Samuel Gompers, president American
Federation of Labor; John Mitchell
president United Mine Workers; Frank P.
Sargent, grand master Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Firemen; Theodore j. Shaf-
fer, president Anla1gamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers; James
union; Daniel J. Keefe, president Inter
national association of Longshoremen;
James OConnel, president international
Association of Machinists; Martin Fox,
president Iron Molders' National union;
James E. Lynch, president International
Typographical union; Edward E. Clarke,
grand master Brotherhood of Railway
Conductors; Henry White, secretary Gar
ment Workers of America; Walter Mac
Arthur, editor Coast Seamen's Journal,
San Francisco.
To Represent the Public:
Former President Grover Cleveland; !;
Archbishop John Ireland; Bishop Henry
C. Potter; Charles Francis Adams, of
Boston,; Cornelius N. Bliss, former sec
retary of the interior; Charles W. Eliot,
president of Harvard university; Fank-
lin McVeagh, of Chicago; former Comp
troller of the Currency James II. Eckels;
John J. Cook, a lawyer of this city; John
G. Milburn, of Buffalo; Charles j. Bon
aparte, of Baltimore.
The chairman of the conference, Oscar
S. Strauss, and Secretary Ralph M. LAS
ly, are ex-ofhcio members of the COM
mittee.
A subcommittee of three to consider
plan, scope and procedure was appoint
ed
The executive committee will meet to-
morrow for organization, the election Of
officers and the drafting of plan upon
which to work.
The principal officers of the American
Federation of Labor attended the closing
session of the conference, and gave the
project their commentator. Samuel
Gompers, president of the federation,
disavowed antagonism on the part of
organized labor toward aggregations of
capital, and said that he welcomed them
industrially.
Archbishop Ireland made the closing
address OF the conference. He said in
part:
May the winds carry the news over
the continent and around the world, tnat
such meeting as this has taken place