The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-18
PRACTICAL TEST
OF HARMONY PLAN
Executive Committee Representing
Both Capita and Labor
Amounted
Appointed.
iRr Associated Prcss.l

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE conference
between the leaders of labor and capital
concluded to-day with a decision to give
the plan 10 harmonic their divergent IN
tereStS practical test. 1t was uilaha-
cously agreed that the working details
shall be perfected by an executive COM
mittee OF IS, to be chosen in equal num-
bers from the ranks of organized labor,
the great industrial and financial leaders
and such OF the public men as are not
identified with either of the other two
interests.
In the afternoon Chairman Oscar S.
Straus and Secretary Ralph hl. Easley,
with Archbishop Ireland, Senator hanna.
Samuel Gomrers. President Mitchell, OF
the United Mine Workers; Frank T. Sar-
gent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
tfiremen, and others who had taken part
in the conference met to select the mem
bcrs of the executive committee Alter
several hours OF consultation the Iollo"-
ing names were announced:
To Represent the Employers and Capt.
talists-United States Senator Mark a.
Hanna: James a. Chambers, president
American Glass Company, PlttSburs, "a. ];
William H Pfahler. president Natioral
Association of Stove Manufacturers; s.
Il, Galloway, president American Loco
motive Works; Louis Nixon, president ana
owner of the Crescent Ship-yaro, Eliza
bethport, n. j.; Charles NJ. Schwab, pres
ident United States Steel Corporation; III.
H Erccland, president metropolitan
Street Railway Company. Ne" York;
Charles y. Moore, president OF the Ma
chine Manufacturing Company; John d.
Rockefeller, j.; L. d. Ripley, president
Atchison Topeka and Santc-Fe Railroad;
Marcus NJ. Marks, president National AS
sociation of Clothing Manufacturers;
Justus Kruttschnitt. general manager
Southern Pipe Company.
To Represent Organized Labors-Samuel
Gompers, president American Federation
of Labor; John Mitchell. president United
Mine Workers: Frank p. Sargent, grand
master Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men: Theodore ]. Shaffer, president
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers; James Duncan, secre-
tary Granite Cutters Union; Daniel ].
Keefe, president International Association
of ''Longshoremen:" James O,Connell.
president International Association of
Machinists; Martin Fox, president Iron
Moulders' National Union; James T..
Lynch. president international Typo
graphical Union; Edward L. Clarke,
srand-mastcr Brotherhood Of Railway
Conductors: Henry White, secretary Car
ment Workers of America; "alter Mac
Arthur, editor Coast Seamens Journal,
San Francisco.
10 represent l!tc Iuplit-i>h-I iN'iNh-iiI
Grover Cleveland: Archbishop John Ire
land; Bishop Henry G. Potter; Charles
Francis Adams, Boston; Cornelius N
Bliss, cx-Secretary of the Interior;
Charles w. Eliot, president of Harvard
University; Franklin McNeash, Chicago;
Ex-Comptroler of the Currency, James
H Eczels; John J. AIcCool, Il lawyer OF
this city; John G.. Milburn, Buffalo;
Charles \. Bonaparte, Baltimore.
Chairman of the Conference, Oscar 5.
Straus, and Secretary NJ. Easley are eX-
oficio members of the committee.
A committee of three, to consider the
PLAN scope, and procedure, was APP
pointed.
The Executive Committee will meet to-
morrow for organization, the election OF
officers and the drafting OF a plan upon
which to work.
The principal officers of the American
Federation of Labor attended the clos
ing session Of the conference and gave
the project their communication. Samuel
Gompcrs, president of the Federation.
disavowcd anita gonism on the part OF
organized labor toward asSregatons OF
capitaI. and said that he welcomed them
industTially.
He protested, however, against their
alleged interference with the present al
fairs of the country and notably with
the natiora! judiciary.