The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-18
COMMITTEE OF 36
Conference of Labor and Capital
Has a Plan
To Harmonic Divergent Inter-
ests of the Two Classes.
rs nINInEn EnHHH
is DIVIDED EQUALLY.
Senator Hanna Heads the List
of the Employers.
Samuel Gompers Chief of Or
ganized Labor Division.
Grover Cleveland Leads as Rep
resentatiye of the Public.

New York, Dec 1S-The conference
| between the leaders of labor and capital
closed today with a decision to give
the plan to harmonic their divergent
interests practical test. 1t was unani-
mously agreed that the working OF
the scheme shall be perfected by an
executive committee of SO, to be chosen
in equal numbers from the ranks Cf
organized labor, the great industrial and
financial leaders and the public not
identified with either of the two inter-
ests. Chairman Oscar Strauss and
Secretary Ralph M. Easley with Arch
bishop Ireland, Senator Hanna, Samuel
Gompers, President Mitchell of the
United Mine workers; Frank P. Sargent
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and others who had taken part i'll
the conference met to select the MEM
bers of the executive committee. After
several hours OF consultation the fol-
lowing names were announced:
To represent the employers and capi-
talistsrSenator Hanna, James A
Chamber. president American Glass
company. Pittsburg: William H. Pfan-
Ter, president National association of
stove manufacturers; S. r. Galway,
president American Locomotive works;
Louis Nixon, president and owner of
the Crescent ship yard, Elizabethport,
N. j. Charles NJ. Scfwab, president
United States Steel corporation: H. H.
Vreeland, president Metropolitan Street
Railway company, New York; Charles
A. Moore, president of the Machine
Rockefeller, jr.: E. D. Ripley, president
of the AtchisOn, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway; Marcus NJ Marks, president
National Association of Clothing Manu-
facturers; Julius KrutscEnitt, general
manager Southern Pacific railroad.
To represent organized labor: Samuel
GomperS, president American Fedora
ton of Labor; John Mitchell, president
United Mine Workers; Frank P. Sar
gent, grand master Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Firemen; Theodore J. Schaffer,
president Amalgamate ted Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers: James
Duncan, secretary Granite Cutters un
ion; Daniel J. Keefe, president Interna-
tional Association of Longshoremen;
tional Association of Machinists; Martin
Fox, president Iron Molders National
union; James E. Lynch, president Inter-
national Typographical union; Edward
E. Clarke, grand master Order of Rail
way Conductors; Henry White, secre-
tary Garment Workers of America;
Walter Macarthur, editor Coast Sea-
mems Journal San Francisco.
To represent the public-Ex-President
Grover Cleveland, Archbishop John Ire
land Bishop Henry c. Potter, Charles
Francis Adams, Cornelius N. Bliss, eX-
secretary of the interior; Charles w.
Eliot president of Harvard university;
Franklin McVeigh, Chicago; ex-Comp-
trol1er of the Currency James H. Eek
els: John c. McCook, of this city; John
G. Milburn, of Buffalo; Charles A. Bon
aparte Baltimore
Chairman of the conference, Oscar s.
Strauss and Secretary Ralph M. Easley
as ex-officio members of the committee.
A subcommittee of three to consider
plan, scope and procedure was appoint
ed.
When the general committee was
called to order. Mr. Hanna was select
ed chairman.
COMMITTEE HOLDS FIRST MEET
ING
New York, Dec. 1S--Charged with the
task of drafting scheme of plan
and scope, the general committee ap-
ference met today in private conference
to take up its work. Among those in at
tendance were Oscar Strauss, Charles
M. Schwab, 5. R. Galway, Charles A
Moore Cornelius N. Bliss. Lewis Nixon
J. J. McCook r. NJ EaSley, Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell, Frank Sargent
and James Duncan. 1t was announced
that a committee on plan and scope
upon which Senator Hanna, Archbishop
Ireland, Bishop Potter and Messrs.
Gompers Nixon, Mitchell, Galloway,
Sargent Bliss, Schwab and Strauss had
been named would present a prelinli-
formation as to the nature of the report
was withheld pending its eonsidera-
ton.
Before the meeting was opened to-
day Chairman Strauss made a brief
statement for publication. Il can not
tell you anything about the plan for
putting into practice the peaceful pro-
jects of this conference" he, said. We
are at work on it and in due time it
will be made public. / believe every
man named on the committee will serve.
All of the labor leaders have accepted
and in this epoch making union of Ia
bor and capital, no man can deny his
services to a project that means such
great good for his country. The APP
proval of the labor leaders means the
cooperation of more than 1000, 900
organized workers. AS we progress in
this work, it becomes more apparent
that the chief cause of trouble in the
past has arisen from misunderstanding
Never We're truer words spoken than by
John Mitchell yesterday when he who
has seen more strikes than any man of
his age in the country, said that there
never was a strike which could not
have been averted if the opposing inter
ests had first met and fairly considered
their respective rights"