The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-18
LABOR AND CAPITAL
Joint Committee Appointed to
Secure Perfect Harmony
of Interests.

New York. Dec 1.-THE conference
between the leaders Of labor and cap
ital closed today with a decision to
give the plan to harmonic their di-
vergent interests a practical test. 1t
was unanimously agreed that the work
ing details Of the scheme shall be per
fected by an executive committee Of
thirty-six, to be chosen in equal num-
bers from the ranks of organized labor,
the great industrial and financial lead
ers 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 Comp
ers, 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 sew
eral hours of consultation the follow
ing names were announced:
Executive Committee.
To. represent the employers and cap
italists-Senator Hanna, James A.
Chambers, President American Glass
company. Pittsburg; William H. Pfah-
Ter. president National Association Of
Stove Manufacturers: F. A. Galloway
President American Locomotive
Works; Lewis Nixon, president and
owner Of the Crescent Ship Yard. Eliz-
abethport, n. J.; Charles NJ Schwab
president United States Steel corpora
ton: H H Vree' md, president Metro
pOlitan Street Railway company, New
York; Charles A. Moore, president Of
the machine manufacturing company;
John D. Rockefeller, jr., z. D. Ripley
president Of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad. Marcus NJ Marks,
president National Association Of
Clothing Manufacturers; julius Krutt-
schnitt. general manager Southern Pa
cific railroad.
To represent organized Iabor-Samuel
GOmpers. president American Fedora
ton of Labor; John Mitchell, president
United Mine Workers; Frank P. Sar-
gent, grand master Brotherhood Of LO-
connective Firemen; Theo J. Shaffer.
president Amalgamated Association Of
Iron. Steel and Tin Workers; James
Duncan, secretary Granite Cutters
union; Daniel J, Ksefe, president Inter
national Association of 'LOngshOremen;
James O'COnnell, president Interna-
tiOnaI Association of Machinists: Mar
tin Fox, president Of the Iron Mould
ers' National union; James z. Lynch,
president of the International Typo
graphical union; Edward E. Clarke.
grand master Order of Railway Con-
ductors; Henry White, secretary Of the
Garment Workers of America; Walter
Macarthur, editor Coast Seamens'
Journal.
To represent the -public-Ex-P President
Grover Cleveland, Archbishop John Ire
land, Bishop Henry c. Potter, Charles
Francis Adams, Cornelius n. Bliss, ex-
secretary Of the interior; Charles W.
Eliot, president OF Harvard university:
Franklin MacVeagh, Chicago; ex-
Comptroller of the Currency James II.
Eckels, John ]. McCOok of this city,
John G. Milburn of Buffalo, Charles A.
Bonaparte of Baltimore.
Chairman of the confeFence-OscaT G.
Strauss, and Secretary Ralph NJ. Eas-
ley are ex-OfficiO members of the COM
mittee
A subcommittee of three to consider
plans scope and procedure, was ap-
pointed.
The executive committee viii meet
tomorrow for organization, the elecs
ton of officers and the drafting of a
a plant upon which to work.
Federation Officers Protest.
The principal officers of the American
Federation of Labor attended the clos
Ing session of the conference and gave
the project their commentator. Sam
uel Gompers, president OF the Fedora
ton. disavOwed antagOnism on the part
of organized labor toward aggregations
of capital and said that he welcomed
them industrially. He protested, how
ever, against their allege Interference
with the political affairs Of the country,
and notably with the national judiciary.
Archbishop Ireland made the colsing
address of the conference.
He said. in part: May the winds
carry the news over the continent
and around the world that such a meet
ing as this has taken place in the great