Connecticut western news., 1901-12-19
LABOR COURT NAMED.
Thirty-six Eminent Men Com
 pose Permanent Board.
TO DEAL WITH ALL DISPUTES

men, Cmpftalists and Public Men
 Character of Thsse Representative,
 Proves Scheme to Re Not Visionary
 New York. Dec 1S.-The conferenc, of the industrial department of the Ma tional Civic federation resulted yes terday in the selection of the execu tive committee of thirty-six, which will be a court of arbitration to deal witt disputes between labor and capital h the United States. The committee vii meet in executive session at the rooms of the New York board of trade ane transportation today to make plans foi work and elect officers.
 Authority for the appointment of the committee was conferred by the pas sage of a resolution offered by Frani F. Sargent, grand master of the Broth erhood of Locomotive Bremen, and agreed to unanimously by the confer ence. It gave to Oscar s. Straus, the chairman, power to name an executive committee of thirty-six, twelve repre- senting the employers of labor, twelve representing the employees and twelve representing the general public. Fol lowing the passage of the resolution was a brief address by Archbishop Ire land, which was like an invocation ano a prayer for industrial peace.
 Let no one go on this committee said the venerable prelate, 'who hai not a heart full of justice and charity May the poor be guarded and may the rich be guarded from the peril of in justice, and may they all be blessed by the Great Lord, common father of them all!'
 The twelve members of the commit tee representing capital are:
 Mark A. Hanna, United States sena tor; James A. Chambers, president American Glass company, Pittsburg William H. Pfahler, president National Association of Stove Manufacturers s. R. Galloway, president American Lo comotive works; Lewis Nixon, presi dent and owner of the Crescent snip yard, Elizabethport, N. J.; Charles NJ 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, IT,; E. D. Ripley, presi- dent Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad; Julius Kruttschnitt, general manager Southern Pacific railroad, and Marcus NJ. Marks. president Ma. tional Association of Clothing Manufac. turers.
 Organized Labor's Representatives.
 Organized labor is represented on the committee by the following:
 Samuel Gompers, president American Federation of Labor; John Mitchell. president United Mine Workers; Frank P. Sargent, grand master Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen; Theodore J. Shaffer, president Amalgamated Asso- citation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers; Daniel J. Keefe, president Information. al Association of Longshoremen; James Duncan, secretary Granite Cutters un- ion; James O'Connell, president Inter national Association of Machinists; Martin Fox, president Iron Holders National union; James E. Lynch, presi. dent International Typographical un- ion; Edward E. Clarke, grand master Brotherhood of Railway Conductors; Henry White. secretary Garment Work CTS of America, and Walter Macarthur, editor Coast Seamen's Journal, San Francisco.
 The third disinterested element Is composed as follows: Former President Grover Cleveland, Archbishop John Ireland. Bishop Henry c. Potter, Charles Francis Adams, Boston; Charles W. Eliot, president of Har- yard university; Franklin v Mac 
 James H. Eckels, John J. McCook, a lawyer of this city; John G. Milburn. former president of the Pan-American exposition, Buffalo, and Charles J. Bo- naparte, Baltimore.
 The chairman and secretary are ex officio members of the committed A subcommittee of three to consider plan, scope and procedure was appointed. To Consider and Ad~f.e. The functions of the committee will be to consider and advise upon all diff ferences that may arise between em- ployer and employee, to endeavor to bring about & harmonious understand ing without recourse to strikes, to seek | to maintain and to extend a broader | fellowship between the individual or corporation which controls the capital and the wage earner whose labor helps to produce it. The powers of the com mittee will be national In their scope and will embrace every form of indus trial pursuit. The unanimity with which the resolution was adopted dem- onstrated the full earnestness of both parties to the compact. Archbishop Ireland was of the opinion that 1t was the most hopeful sign of a grand good to be accomplished that could have | been presented.