The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-12-20
PAYNE 70 SUCCEED SMITH FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE
Sentiment of Capital and Labor
is to Get Together.

Sentiment Of Capital and Labor
is to Get Together.
HARMONY is THE WATcHWoRD.
Executive Committee is Appointed
Consisting of Representatives Of
Capital, Labor and Outside Public.
Civic Federation Conference Closes.
New York, Dec. 1S.-The conference
between the leaders of labor and cap
ital closed yesterday with decision
to give the plan to harmonize their
divergent interests practical test.
1t was unanimously agreed that the
working details of the scheme shall
be perfected by an executive COM
mittee of S6, to be chosen in equal
number from the ranks of organized
labor, great industrial and financial
leaders and from such of ths public
not identified with either of the two
interests. After several hours of con-
sultation the following names were
announced:
To represent the employers and cap
italists-Senator Mark A. Hanna,
James A. Chamber, president of the
American Glass company; William H.
Pfahler, president of the National AS.
sociation of Stove Manufacturers;
Lewis Nixon, shipbuilder; Charles M.
Schwab, president of the United States
Steel corporation; H. H. Vreeland,
president of the Metropolitan Street
Railway company; Charles A. Moore,
president of the Machine Manufacture
ing company; John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
E. D. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe
railroad; Marcus M. Marks, president
of the National Association of Cloth
ing Manufacturers; julius Krutt-
schnitt, general manager Southern Pa
cific.
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 Of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen; Theodore J. Shaffer,
president Of the Amalgamated Associ-
alton of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers; !;
James Duncan, secretary OF the Gran
ite Cutters union; Daniel j. Keefe,
president of the International Associ-
alton of Longshoremen; James O'Con.
nell, president Of the international AS
sociation of Machinists; Martin Fox,
president Of the Iron Molders' union:
James e. Lynch, president Of the In
ternational Typographical union; e. E.
Clark, grand master Of the Brother
hood of Railway Conductors: Henry
White, secretary Of the Garment
Workers Of America; Walter MacAr-
thur, editor of the Coast Seamen's
Journal, Sans Francisco.
To represent the public: Ex.Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland, Archbishop
John Ireland, Bishop Henry G. Potter,
Charles Francis Adams Boston; Cor
nelius N. Bliss, ex-secretary of the in
terror; Charles w. Elliot, president
of Harvard university; Franklin Nc
Veagh, Chicago; ex-Comptroller OF
the Currency James Eckles, John J.
McCook, a lawyer of this city; John
G. Milburn, Buffalo; Charles A. Bona.
parte. Baltimore.
Archbishop ireIand's Address.
Archbishop Ireland made the clos.
ing address Of the conference. He
said, in part: MAY the winds carry
hn f1o
around the world that such meeting
as this has taken place in the great
city of New York The hope of the
goth century is that the great princi
pies OF brotherhood, charity and jus
tice announced by the holy one OF
Palestine shall become wider and
deeper at this time than at any other
Let us have industrial peace. Let
employer and employe know that they
are brothers. Let charity and justice
and justice more than charity, be the
prevailing light of this great nation
The principal officers of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor attended the
closing session Of the conference and
gave the project their commendation
Samuel Gompers disavowed antag
onism of organized labor toward cap
ital and said that he welcomed then
industrially. He protested, however
against their alleged interference with
the political affairs of the country
and notably with the national judic
iary.
Court Hears Argument.
New York, Dec. 18.-Argument wal
heard by Justice Scott in the supreme
court yesterday Oh the application Of
Wolf Bros, & Co. and other plaintiffs