The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-18
Leaders of Labor and Capital De-
eide to Give Their Plan to Har-
monte Their Divergent Inter-
eStS a Practical Test
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OF So TO BE DRAWN
An Equal Number Chosen From
the Ranks Of Organized Labor
and the Great Industrial and
Financial Leaders and From
the Public

New York, Dec 1.-THE conference
between the leaders of labor and CAPT
tai closed today with a decision to give
the plan to harmonic their divergent
interests a practical test. 1t was
unanimously agreed that the practical
working details of the scheme should
be perfected by an executive commit
tee of 36 members to be drawn in
equal numbers from the ranks of or
ganized labor, the great industrial and
financial leaders and the public not
identified with either of the other two
interests.
III the afternoon Chairman Oscar s.
Strauss and Secretary Ralph NJ. Easily,
with Archbishop Ireland, Senator
Hanna, Samuel Gompers, 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 CAPT
talists: United States Senator Mark
A Hanna; James A. Chambers, Presi-
dent American Glass Company, Pitts
burg; William p. Pfahler President
National Association of Stove Manu-
facturers; s. r. Galloway, resident
American Locomotive Works: Lewis
Nixon, President and owner Of the
Crescent shipyard, Ellzabethport, N.
j.; Charles M. Schawb, President Unit
ed States Stel Corporation; H. II. Vree-
land, President Metropolitan Street
Railway Company; Charles A. Moore,
President of the Machine Manufacture
ing Company; John d. Rockefeller Jr
E: d: Ripley, President of the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad:
Marcus M. Marks, President National
Association of Clothing Manufacturers;
julius Kruttschnitt, General Manager
Southern Pacific Railroad.
To represent organized labor: Samuel
Gompers, president American Fedora
ton of Labor John Mitchell, president
United Mine Workers; Frank p Sar-
gent, grand master Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen; Theodore j.
Shaffer. president Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron and Steel Workers
James Duncan, secretary Granite Cut
ters' Union; Daniel j. Keefe, president
International Association of Long
shoremen: James OConnell. president
International Association of Ma
chinists; Martin Fox, president Iron
Moulders' National Union; James f.
Lynch, president International Typo
graphical Union Edward e. Clarke,
grand master Brotherhood Locomotive
| Firemen.
To represent the public: Former
President Grover Cleveland: Archbishop
John Ireland Bishop Henry c. Potter
Charles Francis Adams, Boston; Cor
nelius N. Bliss, former Secretary of the
Interior; Charles w. Elliot, President
of Harvard University, Franklin Nc
Veagh, Chicago former Comptroller
James A. Eckles John J. McCook q
lawyer Of this city; John G. Millburn
of Buffalo, Charles A Bonaparte, Bal
timore. Chairman of the conference,
Oscar S. Straus and Secretary Ralph
M. Easily are ex-ofiicio members of the
committee.
A subcommittee of three, to consider
plan, scope and procedure, was ap-
pointed. The executive committee will
meet tomorrow for organization and
election of officers and for drafting of a
plan on which to work.
The principal officers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor attended the
closing conference and gave the pro-
ject their commentator. Samuel NJ.
Gompers disavowed antagonism on the
part of organized labor toward aggre-
cations of capital, and said that he
welcomed them industrially. He pro-
tested, however against their. alleged
interference with the political affairs
of the country and notably with the
national judiciary.