Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-19
Leaders to Give Peace Plan a
Practical Test.
A COMMITTEE OF 81 is NAMED
representatives of Corporations,
Trusts and Labor Unions Join in
Common Movement to Bring About
Better Understanding Among Them.


plan a practical test.
An executive committee of thirty
seven men-twelve representing capt.
tai, twelve labor, and thirteen the gen.
eral public-was appointed. This
committee will at once enter upon the
work of drafting working plan upon
which all disputes between capital and
labor may be adjusted without resort
to lockout, strike and boycott.
Make Up of the Committee.
The executive committee is made up
of the following:
For the Capitalists.
Mark A. Hanna, United States sena.
tor.
James A. Chambers, President
American Glass company, Pittsburg,
Pa.
William H. Pfahler, President Ma
tional Association of Stove Manufac-
turers.
S. R. Galloway, President American
Locomotive works.
Lewis Nixon, President and owner
of the Crescent Ship Yard, Elizabeth,
N. ].
Charles NJ. schwab, President Unit
ed Steel corporation.
III. H. Vreeland. President Metro
politan Street railway company, New
York
Charles A. Moore, President of the
Machine Manufacturing company.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
E. d. Ripley, President Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe railroad.
Marcus M. Marks, President Nation
al Association of Clothing Manufac-
turers.
julius Kruttschmitt. General Mana
ger Southern Pacific railroad.
For Organized Labor.
Samuel Gompers. President Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
| John Mitchell, President United
Mine Workers.
Frank P. Sargent Grand Master
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
Theodore ]. Schaffer President
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers.
James Duncan, Secretary Granite
| Cutters union.
| Daniel j. Keefe. President Interna.
tional Association of Longshoremen.
James O'Connell, President lnterna-
tional Association of Machinists.
Martin Fox, President Iron Molders
National union.
4 James E. Lynch. President lnterna
! tional Typographical union.
i Edward e. Clark Grand Master
Brotherhood of Railway Conductors.
4 Henry White. Secretary Garment
Workers Of America.
JN,Ita,, Art edition Coa
mans Journal, San Francisco.
To Represent the Public.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland.
Archbishop John Ireland.
Bishop Henry G. Potter.
Charles Francis Adams, Boston
Cornelius N. Bliss, eN-Secretary Of
the Interior.
Charles w. Eliot, President Of Har
ward University.
Franklin MacVeagh, Chicago.
James H. Eckles, eX-Comptroller Of
the Currency, Chicago.
John ]. McCook, lawyer, New York
John G.. Milburn, Buffalo.
Charles A. Bonaparte, Baltimore.
Chairman of the conference, Oscar
S. Strau, and Secretary Ralph M. Eas
ley are eX-of1iCio members of the com
; mittee.
Last Day of the Conference.
The principal officers of the Ameri
, can Federation of Labor attended thu
closing session of the conference ant
gave the project their commentator
, Samuel Gompers, president of the fed
. Grafton, in his speech disavowed antas
; onism on the part of organized labo
toward aggregation of capital. and sail
!, that he welcomed them industrially
He protested, however, against thei
+ alleged interference with the politica
! affairs of:the country, and notably will
q the national judiciary.
Frank Sargent of the Brotherhood o
Locomotive Firemen in brief address
!, replied to the criticisms of organize
labor made by Charles NJ Schwab HI
said that unionism was not menac
but an instrument of peace and gooc
was within the law, and was stron
, influence toward the maintenance {
the republic.
John Mitchell president of tie Uni
), ed Mine Workers, declared he had ne'
= er seen a strike that could rot hay
been averted if The two interests ha
met fairly in advance.
Archbishop IreIand's Message.
Archbishop Ireland made the clio
ing address of the conference. II
said in part:
MAY the winds carry the new
over the continent and around tn
world that such meeting as this ha
taken place in the great City of Ne
q York. The hope of the twentieth Gel
d tury is that the great principles {
= brotherhood. charity, and justice a
nounced by the Holy One of Palestir
shall become wider and deeper at tn
time than at any other. Let us hay
industrial peace. Let employer al
employee know that they are brother
Let charity and justice more tina
y charity, be the prevailing light of tn
great nation