The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-18
Plan of the National Civic Federation
Will BE Given n Test With
out Delay.
AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
WILL TODAY PERFECT PLANS FOR
CARRYING OUT THE DETAILS.
Well-known UniOnists, Industrial
and Financial Leaders and other
Men Chosen for the Work.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE conference
closed to-day with a decision to give the
plan to harmonize their divergent interests
a practical test 1t was unanimously agreed
that the working details of the scheme
shall be perfected by an executive commit
tee of thirty-six. to be chosen in equal num-
bers from the ranks Of organized labor, the
great industrial and financial leaders, and
such of the public not identified with either
of the two interests. In the afternoon
Chairman Oscar Straus and Secretary
Ralph NJ. Easley, 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 executive committee.
After several hours of consultation the
following names were announced:
To represent the employers and capital
ists-Cnited States Senator Marcus A. Han
ma; James A. Chambers. president Ameri-
can Glass Company, Pttsburg, Pa; Will
liam H. Pfahier, president National Asso-
citation OF Stove Manufacturers; S. r. Gal
laway, president American locomotive
works; Lewis Nixon. president and owner
Of the Crescent ship yard. Ehzabethport,
y. j; Charles Nj. Schwab, president of the
United States Steel Corporation; H. H.
Vreeland, president Metropolitan Street
~ - "A.
Moore, president Machine Manufacturing
Company; John d. Rockefeller, jr: e D.
Ripley, president Atchison, Topeka & San
Ia Fe Railroad; Marcus NJ. Marks presi-
dent National Association of Clothing Man
ufacturers; Julius Kruttschnitt, general
manager Southern Pacific Railroad
To represent organized labor-SamueI
Gompers, president American Federation OF
Labor; John Mitchell, president limited
Mine Workers; Frank p. Sargent. grand
master Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men; Theodore ]. Shaffer. president
Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and
Granite Cutters Union; Daniel J. Keefe
president International Association Of
LongshOremen; James O'ConneI president
international Association OF Machinists:
tional Union; James f. Lynch. president
international Typographical Union: Ed
ward Il. Clarke. grand master Brotherhood
or Railway Conductors: Henry White.
secretary Garment Workers Of America;
Walter Macarthur. editor Coast Seamen's s
Journal. San Francisco
To represent the public-Ex- President
Grover Cleveland, Archbishop John Ire
Francis Adams Boston; Cornelius ~
Bliss. ex-secretary of the interior
Charles w. Eliot, president Harvard
University; Franklin Mcveagh. Chi
n. Eckels, John G. McCook. a lawyer
OF this city: John G. Milburn Buff
falo; Charles j. Bonaparte. Baltimore.
Chairman OF the Conference Oscar s.
Straus and Secretary Ralph NJ. Easey are
cx officio members of the committee.
A subcommittee of three 10 consider plan
scope and procedure was appointed. The
executive committee will meet tomorrow
and the drafting OF plan upon which to
work
The principal officers OF the American
Federation OF Labor attended the closing