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TO SETTLE LABOR DISPUTES:
The Public, Capital and Labor Repre-
sented on a Permanent Board
THE OBJECT INDUSTRIAL PEACE

rhirty-six Men, Known Throughout tho
Country in Their Various Fields, Are
Selected by the Convention OF the Civic
Federation to Bring Capital and Labor
Into Moro Friendly Relations.
New York City.-As a result Of the
conferences between representatives
Of capital and labor which have taken
place under the auspices of the Ma
tional Civic Federation, in this city.
there was named a standing commit
tee to take the subject Of labor trou-
bles under further consideration and to
obviate strikes in the future, if posi-
BILE.
The motion for the appointment OF
this committee was made by F. 2.
Sargent, Grand Master Of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen, who
suggested that it be composed of ten
representatives of organized capital,
ten representatives Of organized labor
and ten gentlemen to represent the
general. public. Senator Marcus A
Hanna seconded this motion, which
was put and carried by the conference.
An executive session was held, at
the conclusion of which it was an
nounced that the following committee
had been named in accordance with
the resolutions named:
nhoI Of pnhlin-(Tr0V9r
Cleveland, Cornelius n. Bliss, Charles
Francis Adams, Archbishop John Ire
land, Bishop Henry c. Potter, Charles
w. Eliot, President of Harvard Univer-
sity; Franklin McVeagh, Of Chicago;
James H. Eckels, John J. McCook;
John G. Milburn, of Buffalo; Charles J.
Bonaparte, of Baltimore; Oscar b.
Straus, Ralph NJ. Easley.
Representatives Of Organized Labor
Samuel Gompers. President Of the
American Federation Of Labor; John
Mitchell, President Of the United Mine
Workers; f. P. Sargent, Grand Master
Of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fire
men; II. J. Shaffer, President OF the
Amalgamated Association Of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers; James Duncan,
S. .ratary of the Granite Cutters Asso-
citation; Daniel J. Keefe, President or
the International Association Of Long
shoremen; Martin Fox, President OF
the National Iron Moulders' Union;
James E. Lynch, President Of the In
ternational Typographical Union; Ed
ward E. Clarke, Grand Conductor of
the Brotherhood of Railway Conduc-
tors; Henry White, Secretary of the
Garment Workers of America; Walter
Macarthur. Editor Of the Coast Sea-
mans Journal, San Francisco; James
O'Connell, President Of the 1nterna-
tlonal Association of Machinists.
Representative Employers-Senator
Marcus A. Hanna, Of Cleveland;
Charles NJ. Schwab, President of the
United States Steel Corporation; s. X.
Galloway, of the American Locomo,
tive Works: Charles Moore, President
of the National Tool Company; j. D.
Rockefeller. Jr.; H. H. Vreeland; Lewis
Nixon, Crescent Shipyard, of Eliza
bethport, n. j.; James A. ChamDers'
President of the American Glass Com
paly, of Pittsburg, Penn; William II.
Pfahler, President Of the National AS
ISOLATION Stove Manufacturers, at
Philadelphia, Penn; f. P. Ripley,
President of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway; Marcus NJ. Marks
President of the National Association
Clothing Manufacturers; ]. Kruttsch-
nitt, President of the Southern Paclnc
Railway Company.
Instead Of q committee of thirty, one
Of thirty-seven members was named
as being more representative.
The convention was one Of the most
remarkable gatherings Of representa-
tives of capital and labor in the history
Of industrial progress. 1t had been
called by the National Civic Federation
for the purpose of discussing the rela-
tions of capital and labor and, II pos
sible, devising a means for settling
strikes. The members included the
reads of several Of the largest indus
trial organizations, representing many
millions of capital, and the leaders OF
many labor organizations, representing
hundreds of thousands Of men. One
estimate placed the capital represented
at over one thousand million dollars,
and the workingmen represented by
their official leaders at more than one
million.