Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-12-26
GOOD MAY RESULT
CONFERENCE BETWEEN LABOR
AND CAPITAL CLOSES
With the Appointment Of . Committee Com.
posed Equally Of Representatives Of Labor.
Capital and the Public, Who viii Consider
How Best to Promote the Interests Of All
Parties Concerned.

new lOTk, Leu. lS.-1uc COHIeTcuCe
between the representatives of labor and
capital has closed with a decision to give
the plan to harmonic their divergent
interests practical test. 1t was unan
imously agreed that the working de-
tails of the scheme shall be perfected by
an executive committee OF SO, to be
chosen in equal numbers from the ranks
of organized 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 Com.
pers, President Mitchell, OF the United
Mine Workers Frank =. 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 CAPT.
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 F. A. Cal.
laway, president of the American Loco.
motive Works; Lewis Nixon, president
and owner of the Crescent Shipyard,
Elizabeth, N. j.; Charles NJ. Schwab,
president of the United States Steel
Corporation; H. II. VreelaDd, president
of the Metropolitan Street Railway Com.
pany, New York; Charles A. Moore,
president Of the Machine Manufacturing
Company; John d. Rockefeller, Jr. f.
d. Ripley, president of the Atkinson,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad; Marcus NJ.
Marks, president of the National Asso-
citation of Clothing Manufacturers
Julins Kruttschnitt, general manager of
the Southern Pacific railroad.
TO represent organized. labor-Samuel
Gompers, president of the 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 K.
Lynch, president of the international
Typographical Union Edward +. 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.
To represent the public--Ex-President
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
j. McCook, of this city; John q. Mil
burn, of Buffalo: Charles A. Bonaparte,
of Baltimore.
Chairman of the Conference Oscar G.
Strauss and Secretary Ralph M. Easley
are ex .officio members of the committee.
A subcommittee of three to consider
plans, scope and procedure was ap.
pointed. The executive committee will
meet tomorrow for organization, the
election OF officers and the drafting OF a
plan upon which to work.
AS far as they have expressed opinions
the labor leaders of the country indOrse
the plan of action and are hopeful that
much good may come of it.