The New York herald., 1922-05-19
STEEL MEN APPROVE
HARDING'S APPEAL
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den Iron Company. New York: James
A. Campbell. president Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company, Youngstown.
Ohio; Edmund A. S. Clarke. president
Consolidated Steel Corporation. New
York; George f. Crawford. president
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company,
Birmingham ii. G. Dalton, Pickands.
Mather & Co.. Cleveland; Alva C..
Dinkey, president Midvale Steel and
Ordnance Company. New York: William
II. Donner. president Donner Steel Com
pany, Buffalo, and George F. Downs.
president Iackawanna Steel Company.
Buffalo.
Percival Rogers. Jr.. United States
Steel Corporation. Narberth, Pa; Will
lam A. Rogers, Rogers. Browns & Co.,
Buffalo; Charles NJ. Schwab. chairman
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, New York !:
John A. Topping, chairman Republic
Iron and Steel Company. New York !;
Ernest T. Weir. president Weirton Steel
Company, Weirton. w. Va; Jesse f..
welborn. president Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. Denver: T. II. Wick
wire. president Wickwire Steel Company.
Buffalo; Horace-S. Wilkinson, chairman
Crucible Steel Company of America
Syracuse II. d. Williams. president Car
negie Steel Company, Pittsburgh; Rich
ard d. Wood. chairman Alan Wood Iron
and Steel Company, Philadelphia A. III.
Woodward chairman Woodward Iron
Company Woodward. Ala. c. ID. Dyer,
yice-president Shenango Furnace Com
pany, Pittsburgh; James A. Farrell.
president United States Steel Corpora
ton. New York: ]. H. Foster, president
Hydraulic Steel Company, Cleveland.
and Elbert Fl. Gary. chairman United
States Steel Corporation, New York.
-Ao;- ~
Corporation, Wheeling, w. Va; Thomas
X. Glenn, president Atlantic Steel Com
pany. Atlanta, Ga: Eugene G.. Grace,
president Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
Bethlehem, Pa. ]. B. Kennedy. chair
man Bryer Hill Steel Company. Youngs-
town, Ohio; Willis l.. King. vice-presi-
dent Jones & Laughlin Steel Company.
Pittsburgh Alex Legge, vice-president
International Harvester Company. Chi
cago Silas j. Llewellyn. president Inter-
state Iron and Steel Company. Chicago;
Willis +. McCook, president Pittsburgh
Steel Products Company, Pittsburgh;
Price Mckinney. president Mckinney
Steel Company, Cleveland. Ohio; Clay
ton Mark. chairman Steel and Tube
Company of America, Chicago William
c. Mather president Cleveland Cliffs
Iron Company. Cleveland; George w.
Nefdringhaus, president National Enam-
cling and Stamping Company. Granite
City, H.: William p. Palmer, president
American Steel and Wire Company.
Cleveland; ]. Leonard Replogle, presi-
dent Vanadium Corporation OF America,
New York, and Frank Richards, NJ. A.
Hanna G. Co.. Cleveland.
The conference occupied more than
three and a half hours. The visitors
were served dinner and then went into
conference over the Presidents sugges-
ton for the doing away with the twelve
hour day.
Most OF the steel men expected to go
direct to their homes from the confer
ence.
Tho departure of the guests from the
White House bore out the Presidents
statement Of the inforrnality OF the
meeting. as the President chatted with
the departing guests in the entrance as
they were taking their leave.
White House Statement.
George b. Christian. secretary to
the President. issued the following
statement from the White House on the
dinner:
"The President had dining with him a
company of nearly fifty representatives
Of the iron and steel industry and Sec
retdrltS mellon. hoover ana Davis. NO
announcement of the purpose of the
dinner was given to the guests in ad-
vance.
After dining. the President stated
that he wished to know better the men
comprising his company of guests and
to very informally discuss with them
the complete abolition of the twelve
hour working day in the steel industry.
He explained frankly that there was
no intention of Government interfer-
ence In private business but that we
are about to witness a great industrial
revival and the one hope of abolishing
the excessively long working day was
TO do 1t before the full swing is re-
sumed.
1.-The President explained that he had
discussed the matter with individual
heads. and found much favorable senti-
ment. but there is a conviction that the
abolition is impracticable without sub
stantially unanimous action by all the
employing forces In the iron and steel
Industries. Hence the dinner and the
attending opportunity to discuss the
proposal amid free and frank expression
on question of such import TO indus
trial America"
The statement added that the dinner
was another development of the Presi-
dents belief that conference affords a
way to accomplishment"