The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-18
TO SETTLE LABOR DISPUTES
CAPITAL AND LABOR LEADERS TAKE IMPORTANT ACTION.
Conference Between Leaders of Both Sides Une ntmously Decide to Give the Plan to HarmOnize Divergent Inter- ests n Practical Test-Executive Conn mittee Appointed to Work Out the scheme Prominent Men Made Mem-
bers-Publlc Represented.

! New York, Dec. 1.-The conference
 between the leaders of labor and capi-
 tai closed to-day with decision to give
 the plan to harmonize their divergent
 interests a practical test. It was unan-
 imously agreed that the practical work
 ing details of the scheme should be per
 fected by an executive committee of
 thirty-six members to be drawn in
 equal numbers from the ranks of or
 ganized labor. the great industrial and
 financial leaders, and the public not
 identified with either of the other two
 interests.
 | In the afternoon, Chairman Oscar s. Straus and Secretary Ralph M. Easley, with Archbishop Ireland. Senator
 Hanna, Samuel Gompers President
 Mitchell of the United Mine Workers,
 Frank P Sargent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen 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 employers and capital
 ists: United States Senator Mark A.
 Hanna, James A. Chambers, president American Glass company, Pittsburg;
 William F. Pfahler, president National Association of Stove Manufacturers; 5. R. Galloway, president American Loco- motive works: Lewis Nixon, president and owner of the Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, N. J.: Charles M. Schwab, president United States Steel corporation; H. H. Vreeland. president Metropolitan Street Railway company; Charles A. Moore, president of the Ma chine Manufacturing company; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., F. D. Ripley, presi- dent Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad; Marcus M. Marks, president National Association of Clothing Man ufacturers; Julius Krutchnitt, general manager Southern Pacific railroad.
 To represent organized labor; Sam uel Gompers, president American Fed eration of Labor; John Mitchell, presi- dent United Mine Workers: Frank P. Sargent, grand master, Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen; Theodore J. Schaffer president Amalgamated Asso- citation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers; James Duncan, secretary Granite Cut ters union; Daniel J. Keefe, president International Association of Long, shoremen: James O'Connell, president International Association of Machin- ists; Martin Fox, president Iron Mould CTS National union; James F. Lynch, president International Typographical union; Edward E. Clarke, grand mas ter Brotherhood of Railway Conduc- tors; Henry White, secretary garment Workers of America: Walter MacAr- thur, 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, Boston; Cor nelius N. Bliss, former secretary of the interior; Charles w. Eliot president of university; Franklin McVeagh | If Chicago, Former Comptroller James EckeIs, John J. McCook, lawyer of | this city John G. Milburn of Buffalo, | Charles A. Bonaparte of Baltimore.
 Chairman of the conference, Oscar $. | Straus, and Secretary Ralph M. Eas- ey are ex-officio members of the com nittee.
 A subcommittee os three to con- sider plan, scope and procedure was appointed.
 The executive committee will meet o-morrow for organization and election # officers, and for the drafting of ,lan on which to work. N
 The principal officers of the Ameri- 'an Federation Of Labor attended the ession of the conference and gave the ,eace project their commendatioh Samuel Gompers. president of the disavowed antagonism on he part of organized labor toward ag- of capital and said that he welcomed them industrially. He pro- ested, however against their alleged with the political affairs of he country and notably with the na- ional judiciary.