The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-12-26

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New York, Dec. l9.-The conference
between the representatives Of labor and
capital has closed with decision to give
the plan TO harmonise their divergent
interests practical test. II was unan-
imously agreed that the working de-
tails Of the scheme shall be perfected by
an executive committee OF 50, to be
chosen in equal numbers from the ranks
Of Organised labor, the great industrial
and financial leaders, and the public not
identified with either Of the two interests.
In the afternoon Chairman Strauss
and Secretary Easley, with Archbishop
Ireland, Senator Hanna, Samuel Conn
pers, 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 capi-
talists- Senator Hanna, James A. Cham
bers, president of the American Glass
Company, Pittsburg; William II. Pfah-
Ter, president OF the National Associa-
ton Of Stove Manufacturers +. A. Cal
laway, president of the American Loco
motive Works; Lewis Nixon, president
and owner Of the Crescent Shipyard,
Elizabeth, N. j.; Charles M. Schwab,
president OF the United States Steel
Corporation; H. III. Vreeland, president
of the Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany, New York; Charles A. Moore,
president of the Machine Manufacturing
Company; John ID. Rockefeller, Jr.; +.
ID. Ripley, president OF the Atchinson,
Topeka < Santa Fe railroad; Marcus M.
Marks, president Of the National Asso-
citation of Clothing Manufacturers;
Julius Kruttschnitt, general manager OF
the Southern Pacific railroad.
To represent organized labor-Samuel
Gompers, president OF tine American
Federation of Labor; John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Workers;
Frank p. Sargent, grand master of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen;
Theodore J. Shaffer, president Of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers; James Duncan, secre-
tary of the Granite Cutters Union;
Daniel j. Keefe, president OF the Inter-
national Association Of Longshoremen;
James O'Connell, president Of the Inter-
national Association of Machinists;
Martin Fox, president OF the Iron
Molders' National Union; James E.
Lynch, president of the international
Typographical Union Edward E. Clarke,
grand master Of the Order of Railway
Conductors; Henry White, secretary Of
the Garment Workers of America;
Walter Macarthur, editor Coast Seamen's
Journal, San Francisco. sHff
To represent the public-Ex-Preside
Grover Cleveland, Archbishop John Ire
land, Bishop Henry G. Potter, Charles
Francis Adams, Cornelius N. Bliss, ex-
secretary of the interior; Chas. w. Eliot,
president of Harvard university; Frank
lin McVeagh, Chicago; ex-Comptroller
Of the Currency James H. Eckels, John
]. McCook, of this city; John g. Mil
burn, OF Buffalo: Charles A. Bonapsrte,
of Baltimore.
Chairman of the Conference Oscar G.
Strauss and Secretary Ralph NJ. Easley
are ex-officio members OF the committee.
A subcommittee Of three to consider
plans, scope and procedure was APP
pointed. The executive committee viii
meet tomorrow for organization, the
election of officers and the drafting Of
plan upon which to work.
As far a. they have expressed opinions
the labor leaders of the country indorse
the plan of action and are hopeful that
much good may como of it.