Passaic City record., 1901-12-21
TO SETTLE LABOR DISPUTES
The Public, Capital and Labor Repre-
sented on Permanent Board.
THE OBJECT INDUSTRIAL PEACE

Ehirty-six Men, Known Throughout thu
Country in Their Various Fields, Ar.
Selected by tho Convention of the Civic
Federation to Bring Capital and Labor
Into More Friendly Relations.
New York City.-As a result of the
conferences between representatives
of capital and labor which have taken
place under the auspices of the Ma
tional Civic Federation, in this city
there was named a standing commit
tee to take the subject of labor trou-
bles under further consideration and to
obviate strikes in the future, if posi-
BILE.
The motion for the appointment of
this committee was made by F. P.
Sargent, Grand Master of the Broth.
q, erhood of Locomotive Firemen, who
suggested that it be composed Of ten
representatives Of organized capital,
ten representatives of organized labor
and ten gentlemen to represent the
general. public. Senator Marcus A
Hanna seconded this motion, which
was put and carried by the conference.
An executive session was held, at
the conclusion of which it was an
nounced that the following committee
had been named in accordance with
the resolutions named:
On Behalf of the Public-Grover
Cleveland, Cornelius N. Bliss, Charles
Francis Adams, Archbishop John Ire.
land, Bishop Henry c. Potter, Charles
w. Eliot, President of Harvard Univer.
sity; Franklin McVeagh, of Chicago;
James H. Eckels, John j. McCook;
John G. Milburn, of Buffalo; Charles J.
Bonaparte, of Baltimore; Oscar E.
Straus, Ralph NJ. Easley.
Representatives of Organized Labor
-Samuel Gompers, President Of the
American Federation of Labor; John
Mitchell President of the United Mine
Workers; F. P. Sargent, Grand Master
Of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fire
men; T. J. Shaffer, President Of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron.
Steel and Tin Workers; James Duncan.
s. ,retary of the Granite Cutters Asso.
citation; Daniel J. Keefe, President OF
the International Association Of Long.
shoremen; Martin Fox, President of
the National Iron Moulders' Union
James E. Lynch, President of the In
ternatlonal Typographical Union; Ed.
ward e. Clarke, Grand Conductor OF
the Brotherhood of Railway Conduc,
tors; Henry White, Secretary of the
Garment Workers of America; Walter
Macarthur, Editor of the Coast Sea.
mans Journal, San Francisco; James
O'Connell, President of the Interna'
tiOnal Association Of Machinists.
Representative Employers-Senator
Marcus A. Hanna, Of Cleveland;
Charles NJ. Schwab. President OF the
United States Steel Corporation; S. r
Galloway, of the American Locomo'
tive Works; Charles Moore, President
of the National Tool Company; J. d.
Rockefeller, 'Jr.; H. H. Vreeland, Lewis
Nixon, Crescent SAipyard, Of Eliza
bethport, N. j.; James A. Chambers,
President of the, American Glass Com
pa1y, of PittsLurg. Pam sAVfAiarl H
Pfahler, President of tie Nabonal AS
sociation Stove Manufs1tu, .rs, at
Philadelphia, Penn; f. P, Ripley.
Santa Fe Railway; Marcus M. Marks.
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Clothing Manufacturers; 81 Krurtsch
nitt. President of the Southern Pacific
Railway Company. n
Instead of a committee of thirty, one
of thirty-seven members was named
as being more representative.
The convention was one of the most
remarkable gatherings Of representa-
.tIves of capital and labor in the history
of Industrial progress. 1t had been
called by the National Civic Federation
for the purpose of discussing the rela-
tions of capital and labor and. If pos
-sible, devising a means for settling
strikes. The members included the
reads of several of the largest indus
trial organizations. representing many
millions of capital, and the leaders of
many labor organizations, representing
hundreds of thousands Of men. One
estimate placed the capital represented
at over one thousand million dollars,
and the workingmen represented by
their official leaders at more than one