The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-18
SETTLED UPON A PLAN.
Committee of ThIrty-six VIII Work
to HarmOnize the Divergent In
terests of labor and CAPITAL.

terests of Labor and Capital.
New York, Dec 1.-THE conference
between the leaders of labor and capi-
tai closed to-day with a decision to
give the plan to harmonize their d.
vergent interests a practical test. 1t
was unanimously agreed that the work.
ing details of the scheme shall be per-
fected by an executive committee of
thirty-siX to be chosen in equal num-
bers from the ranks of organized la
Dor, the great industrial and financial
leaders and such of the public not
identified with either of the other two
interests.
In the afternoon Chairman Oscar
S. Straus and Secretary Ralph M. Eas-
ley, with Archbishop Ireland, Senator
Hanna, Samuel Gompers, President
Mitchell of the United Mine Workers,
Frank p. Sargent of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and others,
who had taken part in the conference,
met to select the members of the Ex-
ecutive Committee. After several
hours of consultation the following
names were announced:
To Represent the Employers and Cap
italists-United States Senator Marcus
A. Hanna, James A. Chambers, pres
ident American Glass Company, Pitts
burg; William +. Pfahler, president of
the National Association of Stove Man
ufacturers; $. r. Galloway, president
American Locomotive Works; Louis
Nixon, president and owner of the
Crescent Shipyard. Elizabethport, N.
j.; Charles Nj. Schwab president of
the United States Steel Corporation;
II. II. Vreeland, president of the Met
ropolitan Street Railway Company,
New York; Charles A. Moore, presi-
dent of the Machine Manufacturing
Company; John D. Rockefeller. Jr., E.
D. Ripley. president of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; Marcus
M. Marks, president of the National
Association of Clothing Manufacturers;
Julius Kruttschnitt, general manager
of the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany.
To Represent Organized Labor
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor; John
Mitchell, president of the United Mine
Workers; Frank p. Sargent. grand
master of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen; Theodore ]. Shaffer.
president of the Amalgamated Associa-
tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers;
James Duncan, secretary of the Gran
ite Cutters Union; Daniel j Keefe,
president of the International Associa-
ton of Longshoremen James O'Con-
nell, president of the International AS
sociation of Machinists; Martin Fox,
president of the Iron Moulders Nation
al Union; James e. Lynch, president of
hesInternational Typographical I'm
| ion; Edward +. Clarke, grand master
of the brotherhood of Railway Con-
ductors; Henry White, secretary of the
Garment Workers of America; Walter
| Macarthur, editor of the Coast Sea-
mems Jounal, San Francisco
| To Represent the Publlc--Ex -Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland, Archbishop
John Ireland, Bishop Henry C. Potter,
Charles Francis Adams Boston; Cor
nelius N. Bliss, exSecretary of the In
terror; Charles w. Eliot, president OF
Harvard University; Franklin Mac
Veagh, Chicago; ex-Controller of the
Currency James II. Eckles; John J.
MeCook, lawyer of this city, John G.
Milburn of Buffalo; Charles A. Bona
parte, Baltimore.
Chairman of the Conference, Oscar
S. Straus. and Secretary Ralph M.
Easley are ex-oficio members of the
committee.
A ub-committee of three to consider
plan, scope and procedure was APP
pointed.
The Executive Committee will meet
tomorrow for organization, the cleo
tion of officers and the drafting of a
plan upon which to work
The principal officers of the Amerl-
can Federation of Labor attended the
closing session of the conference and
gave the project their commendation.
Samuel Gompers, president of the Fed
GRAFTON, disavowed antagonism on the
part of organized labor towards ag>
gregations of capital. and said that he
welcomed them industrially. He pro-
tested however against their Inter
ference with the political affairs of the
country, and notably with the national
judiciary"