The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-17
Promoters of National Indus
trial Conference Board, With
Membership of $4,000 En-
ployers, Discuss New Con-
gress Fight. Against Labor.

at Once by District Judge and
Appealed Instantly, With
Final Decision Soon After
Jan. 1-Strike Threat Denied
New York, Nov. 1.-THE promoters
of the National Industrial Conference
Board, which they say has 49, 900 cap
tains of industry in it's membership,
with $8,000.000,000 capital and 6,OOO,-
600 workers on their payrolls, spent a
good part Of yesterday behind closed
doors at the Aston, following the ad-
journment of the convention of the
parent body, the National Founders
Association.
A proposal to fight the eight hour
day at the coming session of Con-
gress, it is said, was one Of the topics
most discussed at the boards meet
ing.
Z Walter Drew, counsel for the Ma
tional Erectors' Association which
has been taken into the fold of the
new organization, denied last night
that the National Industrial Confer
ence Board had been organized par
ticularly to fight the eight hour day.
William H. Barr, president of the Ma
tional Founders, which body also has
been taken into membership, refused
to make any statement for publica-
ton The other promoters were 81
lent, too
Many of the leading members have
been strong opponents of the eight
hour movement and minimum wage
legislation. Following is an official
list of the boards membership, each
subsidiary body being entitled to two
representatives on the governin g
committee:
Men Who Are Running Affairs.
National Industrial Conference
Observation-Disclosures, Frederick P. Fish,
Of Fish, Richardson, Herrick &
Neave, Boston; Magnus w. Alexander,
executive secretary with General
Electric Co., West Lynn, Mass.
Membership and representatives:
The National Council for Industrial
Observation-Disclosures, John Kirby, Jr..
president Dayton Manufacturing Co.,
Dayton, o.; James A. Emery, general
counsel, Washington, D. C.
acturers-President, George Pope,
Hartford; Stephen G. Mason, Secre-
tary McConway & Torley Co., Pitts
burgh.
The National Founders Association
President, William H. Barr, Presi-
dent Lumen Bearing Co, Buffalo;
Magnus w Alexander, with General
Electric Co., West Lynn, Mass.
The National Metal Trades Associa-
tion-President, w. HI. Van Dervoort,
president, Root & Van Dervoort En-
cheering Co.. East Moline, ILL.,; Her.
bert H. Rice, with General Motors
Co., Detroit, Mich.
The National tErectors' Association
Chairman. S.. P. Mitchell, president
Seaboard Construction Co., Philadel-
phia; Walter Drew, general counsel,
New York.
The National Association of Cotton
Manufa eturers- President A. Farwell
Bemis of the association, President
Bemis Bros. Bag Company, Boston;
Albert q. Duncan, Treasurer Harmony
Mills, Boston.
The American Cotton Manufactur-
ers' Association-Presid John A.
Law of the association, President
Saxon Mills, Spartanburg, S. c.: Eli
son A. Smyth, President Pelzer Man
ufacturing Company, Greenville, S. c..
| The National Associatian of Wool
Manufac turers-President John P.
Wood of the association, Vice Pres
ident Aberfoyle Manufacturing Com
pany, Philadelphia; George c. Hetzel,
President George G. Hetzel Company,
Chester Pa.
| The Silk Associa ton Of America
President Charles Cheney; Treasurer
| Cheney Brothers, South Manchester
Conn; Robert J. F. Schwarzenbach of
| Schwarzenbach, Huber & Co., New
York
| The United Typothetae and Frank
| lin Clubs of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AL
Ebert w. Finlay of, the association
President George H. Ellis Company,
Boston; E. Lawrence Fell, President
Franklin Printing Company lohiladel-
phia.
| The American Paper and Pulp AS
ociation-President Arthur B. Dam
iels, President L. L. Brown Paper CO..
Adams, Mass; G. A. Croker, Presi-
dent Croker McElwain Co., Holyoke.
Mass.
| The Rubber Club Of merica-Pres-
adent Harvey S. Firestone, President
| Firestone Tire and Rubber COMPANY.
N. Y; Frederick G.. Hood, Treasurer
Hood Rubber Company, Watertown.
Mass.
| Erectors Against Shorter Day.
The National Metal Trades Associa-
ton and the National Erectors' Asso-
citation have had many bitter eight
| hour strikes on their hands in the las
three or four years. The officers of
| the metal trades organization recently
| denounced the eight-hour demand of
| labor as "a national menace
| The General Electric Co., with
which Executive Secretary Alexander