The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-12-27
PROMOTERS OF PBACBI
Men of National Fame on an
Executive Committee.
An Effort To Bring About Better
Understanding Between Capital
and Organized Labor.


through the good offices of the National
ClVlc Federation, leading representatives
OF labor and capital met here today &c
discuss plans to minimize wage and in
dustral disputes. Aiding them, witt
counsel, were several prominent students
OF economies and leading figures in tn,
religious world, and the opening session
was notable for number of striking ex
presslons and com ments upon the prob
lem faced by the conference. Oscar
Strauss, ex-minister in Turkey, who
acted as chairman, announced that il
was planned to form a general executive
committee, with representation divided
between capital, labor and the general
public, and it was hoped it would become
a tribunal OF peace, where the conflicting
interests might meet on equal footing
and settle their differences in a spirit OF
conciliation and mutual federation.
All Interests Represented.
New York, Dec. 1.-THE conference
between the leaders OF labor and capital
closed today with the decision to give
the plan TO harmonic their divergent
interests practical test. 1t was unan.
lmously agreed that the working details
OF the scheme shall be perfected by an
executive committee of 36, to be chosen
In equal numbers from the ranks of or
gained labor, the great industrial and
financial leaders, and the public not
identified with either of the two interests.
AFTER several hours of consultation, this
committee was announced as follows:
10 represent the employers and CAPT.
tallsts-SenatOr Hanna; James A. Cham
0ers, president of the American Glass
company, Pittsburg; William Pfahler,
president of the National Association OF
Stove Manufacturers; F. A. Galloway.
president American Locomotive Works;
Lewis Nixon, president and owner Of
crescent shipyard, ElizabethpOrt, n. j.;
Charles M. Schwab, president United
States Steel Corporation; II. Il. Vreel-
and, president Metropolitan Street Rail-
way Company, New York; Charles A.
Moore, president of the Machine Manu-
featuring Company; John D. Rockefeller.
Jr.; =. Z. Ripley, president OF the Atchi-
son, Topeka < Santa Fe road; Marcus
h. Marks, president of the National
Clothing Manufacturers; Julius Krutt-
schnltt, general manager Southern Pa
cific railway.
To represent organized labor-Samuel
Gompers, president American Federation
OF Labor; John Mitchell, president Unit
ed Mine Workers; Frank P. Sargent.
grand master Brotherhood of LocOmot,
I've tlremen; Thomas J. Shafer, presi-
dent Amalgamated Association OF Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers; James Duncan,
secretary Granite Cutters union; Daniel
j. keege, president International Asso-
citation OF LOngshoremen; James O'COn-
nell, president International Association
OF Machinists; Nathan Fox, president
Iron MOlders' National Union; James E.
Lynch, president International Typo.
graphical Union; Edward E. Clark,
grand master Order of Railway Conduct
ors; Henry White, secretary OF the Gar
ment Workers of America; Walter Mac
Arthur, editor Coast Seamen's Journal.
San Francisco.
To represent the public-E1- President
Grover Cleveland; Archbishop John Ire
land; Bishop Henry c. Potter; Charles
Francis Adams; Cornelius Bliss, ex-sec-
retary of the interior; Charles W. Eliot,
president OF Harvard university; Frank
lin MacVeagh, Chicago; ex-COmwtrolIer
OF the Currency James H. Eckels; John
j. McCoOk, New York; John G. Milburn,
Buffalo, Charles A. Bonaparte, Balti-
more.
Chairman of the Conference Oscar
Strauss and Secretary Ralph M. Eastley
are ex-OfficiO members of the committee.
To Promote Industrial Peace.
New York, Dec. 1S.-Charged with the
task of drafting scheme of plan and
scope, the general committee appointed
yesterday at the labor and capital con-
ference met today in private conference
to take up it's work. The following
statement was given out at the cOncIu-
sion OF the executive session:
This committee shall be known as
the industrial department of the Nation
al Civic Federation.
''The scope and province OF this de.
partment shall be to do what may seem
best to promote industrial peace; to be
helpful in establishing rightful relations
between employers and workers; by it's
good Offices endeavor to obviate and
prevent strikes and lockouts; to aid in
renewing industrial relations where a
rupture has occurred.
''At all times representatives of en-
ployers and workers, organized or un
organized, should confer for the adjust
ment of differences or disputes before an
acute stage is reached and thus avoid OIL
minimize the number OF strikes or lock-
outs; that actual agreements as to con
ditions under which labor shall be per
formed should be encouraged and that
when agreements are made the terms
should be faithfully adhered to both in
letter and spirit by both parties.
"Tbis department, either as a whole
or subcommittee by it appointed, shall
when required, act as forum to adjust
and decide upon questions at issue be
tween workers and their employers, pro
vided in it's opinion the subject is one o
sufficient Importance.
"This department will not consider
abstract Industrial problems.
"This department assumes no pOwe
of arbitration unless such powers b,
conferred by both parties TO dispute
"This department shall adopt set o
bylaws for it's government"
officers were elected and COMMITTEES
appointed as follows: Chairman, Senator
Marcus A. Hanna; vice chairmen, Samue
Gompers and Oscar s. Strauss; treas
urer, Charles A. Moore; secretary, Ralph
Nj. Easley.
Committee on bylaws: Oscar
Strauss, s. R. Galloway, James H. Eek
els, John J. McCook, Samuel Gomper
and Harry Hite. The committee on by
laws will report set of bylaws to tn
executive committee at a meeting to r
held about the last week in January, tn
! date to be fixed by the chairman.