The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-12-19
TO AVOID STRIKES.
The Conference at New York Come
to an Agreement.
A PRACTICAL TEST.
Committee OF Twelve Capt aIists, Twelve
from Labor Organizations and
Twelve Disinterested Citizens
Will Work Out Details.

| New York, Dec. 19.-The conference
between the leaders of labor and CAPT
tai closed Tuesday with a decision to
give the plan to harmonic their di-
vergent interests a practical test 1t
was unanimously agreed that the
| working details of the scheme shall
be perfected by an executive commit
tee of SO to be chosen in equal num-
| bers from the ranks of organized Ia
Dor, the great industrial and financial
leaders and such of the public not iden-
titled with either of the other two in
terests.
| In the afternoon Chairman Oscar S.
Strauss and Secretary Ralph NJ. Easley,
with Archbishop Ireland, Senator Han
ma, Samuel Gompers, President Mitch
ell of the United Mine Workers, Frank
P. Sargent OF he Brotherhood OF Lo-
connective Firemen, and others who had
taken part in the conference, met and
selected the following members Of the
executive committee:
To represent the employers and cap
italists-United States Senator Mark
A. Hanna, James A. Chambers, presi-
dent of the American Glass company,
dent National Association Of Stove
Manufacturers; S. r. Galloway, presi-
| dent American Locomotive works;
Lewis Nixon, president and owner of
the Crescent shipyard, Elizabethport,
N. j.; Charles H. Schwab, president of
the United States Stee! Corporation;
Fl. Fl. Vreeland president Metropolitan
Street Railway company, New York;
Charles A. Moore. president of the
Machine Manufacturing company; Jno.
ID. Rockefeller, Jr.; E. D. Ripley. presi-
dent of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
f'e railroad; Marcus II. Marks, Dresi-
dent of the National Association Of
Clothing Manufacturers, and Julius
kruttschnitt, general manager South
ern Pacific Railroad company
To represent organized labor-Sam-
uel Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor; John Mitch
ell, president Of the United Mine
Workers; Frank p. Sargent, grand
master Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen; Theo. J. Shaffer, president
VI Inc AmalSamated Association of
Iron. Steel and Tin Workers; James
| Duncan. secretary of the Granite Cut
ters' union; Dan ]. Keefe, president
OF the international Association of
Longshoremen; James O'Connell. pres
ident of the National Association Of
Machinists: Martin Fox, president of
the Iron Moulders National union:
James E. Lynch, president of the Inter
national Typographical union: Edward
f. Clark, grand master Brotherhood
OF Railway Conductors; Henry w.
Hite, secretary Garment Workers of
America; Walter Macarthur, editor
Coast Seamen's Journal San Fran
cisco
To represent the publc--Ex-Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland. Archbishop
!, John Ireland, Bishop Henry c. Potter
Charles Francis Adams. Cornelius n
Bliss, ex-SeCretary of the interior;
Charles w. Elliott, president Harvard
university; Franklin McVeagh, Chica
go; James II. Eckles. John j. Nc
Cook. a lawyer OF this city; John G.
Miiburn, Buffalo; Charles J. Bona.
t parte, Baltimore. Chairman of the con
ference, Oscar S. Strauss and Score
f tary Ralph NJ Easley are ex-officic
I members of the committee.
The executive committee will meet
today for organization and election OF
, officers and drafting plan upon which
4 to work.