The Irish standard., 1901-12-21
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
Conference Name. Executive COM
mtttee in Which All Interests
Are Represented.

New York, Dec. 18.-The confer
ence between the leaders of labor
and capital closed Tuesday with a de-
cision to give the plan to harmonic
their divergent interests practical
test. 1t was unanimously agreed
that the working details of the;
scheme shall be- perfected by an ex-
ecutive committee of SO to be chosen
in equal numbers from the ranks of
organized labor, the great industrial
and financial leaders. and such of the
public not identified with either of
the other two interests.
This committee will be in effect q
court of labor or board of arbitration,
intended to settle all questions of ma
tional Importance which may arise be-
tween employers and wage-earners.
In the afternoon Chairman Oscar
S. Strauss and Secretary Ralph NJ.
Easley, with Archbishop Ireland,
Senator Hanna, Samuel Gompers,
President Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers; Frank P. Sargent, of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire.
men, and others who had taken part
in the conference met to select the
members of the executive commit
tee. After several hours of consulta-
ton the following names were an
nounced:
To represent the employers and capl-
talists: United States Senator Mark A.
Hanna, James A. Chambers, president
American Glass company Pittsburg. Pa;
TOW foh NV C.
ISOLATION Of Stove Manufacturers: S. r.
Galloway, president American locomotive
works; Lewis Nixon, president and owner
of the Crescent shipyard Elizabethport.
N. j.; Charles NJ Schwab president
United States Steel corporation; H. H.
Vreeland, president Metropolitan Street
Railway company, New York; Charles A.
Moore, president of the Machine Manufac-
turing company; John D. Rockefeller. Jr. /;
e. D. Ripley, president Atchison. Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad: Marcus NJ. Marks,
president National Association of Cloth
ing Manufacturers; Julius Kruttschnitt.
general manager Southern Pacific rail-
road.
To represent organized labor: 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 Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers; James Duncan, secretary
Granite Cutters union; Daniel J. Keefe,
president International Association of
Longshoremen; James O'Connell. president
! International Association of Machinists:
Martin Fox, president Iron Molders' Ma
|. tional union; James E. Lynch, president
international Typographical union; Ed
ward p. Clarke, grand master Brotherhood
of Railway Conductors: Henry White. Sec
rotary Garment Workers of America;
Walter Macarthur, editor Coast Seamen's
Journal. San Francisco.
To represent the public: Ex-President
Grover Cleveland, Archbishop John Ireland
Bishop Henry c. Potter, Charles Francis
Adams. of Boston; Cornelius N. Bliss ex-
secretary Of the interior; Charles w. Eliot
president of Harvard university; Frank
lin McVeagh, of Chicago; ex-Comptroller
OF the Currency James HI. Eckels, John J.
McCook, New York city; John G. Milburn,
OF Buffalo; Charles A. Bonaparte, of Bal.
timore.
The principal officers of the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor attended
! the closing session of the conference
and gave the project their common.
dalton. Samuel Gompers, president
of the federation, disavowed antag.
onism on the part of organized labor
toward aggregations of capital and
said that he welcomed them indus.
trially. He protested, however
against their alleged interference
with the political affairs of the coun
try and notably with the nationa,
judiciary.
Addresses were made during the
day by Archbishop ireland and
others.