Evening star., 1922-05-19

to very informally tliEcues with them
1 the complete abolition OF the twelve-
hour working day III the steel industry.
He explained frankly that there was no
private business. but that We are about
to witness a great Industrial revival
| and the one hope OF abolishing the ex.
| cessively long WORK day was, to do It
before the full SWING is resumed. -
Unnnimity Essential.
| "The President explained that he had
discussed the matter with individual
heads and found much favorable sehti-
ment, but there is a convict'or tfat the
abolition is impf.:..icable without sub
stantialIy UNI ltmolis< action by all the
| eFpioying forces III the iron and steel
industries. Fl Eelre, the dinEer and ;he
attending upportu:f.y to discuss the pro-
posal amid free and frank expression
ON a question Of saleh :ihI.ort to inlas-
+! trial America -
| In addition to Secretaries Mellon,
+ Hoover and Davis, those at the con-
| ference were Judge Gary. James A.
| Farrell. president of the United States
! Steel Corpdration. Charles M. Sehwab,
chairman. Bethlehem Steel Corpora
/; tion. and Eugene e. Grace. president
| of the same company; Leopold K.
| Block.> chairman of the Inland Steel
Company of Chicago; James Bowron,
! president of the Gulf State Steel Com
pany. Birmingham Ala: Il. j. Buff
| fington. president of the Illinois Steel
Company. Chicago: James A. Burden,
| president of Burden Iron Company,
| New York: James A. Campbell, presi-
dent OF Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company. Youngstown. Ohio: Edmund
| y. s. Clarke, president Consolidated
Steel Corporation. New York; George
| A. Crawford. president Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company. Birmingham. Ala.
| Fl. G. Dalton. Pickands, Mather & Co,
Cleveland. Ohio: ,Alva c: Hinkey ,presi.
! dent. Midva1e Steel and Ordnance
| Company. New York; William Fl.
! Donnor, president Donnor Steel Com
! pany. Buffalo, n. y: George s. Downs
! president of Lackawanna Steel Com
! pany Buffalo, N. y: c. ID. Dyer. vice
| president of the S:henango Furnace
/ Company. Pittsburgh, Pa: j. Fl. Fos-
! ter. president Hydraulic Steel Com
| pany cleveland: Alexander Glass,
| chairman. Wheeling Steel Corpora
tion. Wheeling. w. Va: Thomas X.
| Glenn. president Atlantic Steel Com
pany. Atlanta. Ga. ,,,,
J. p. Kennedy. chairman Brier Hin
Steel Company; fo9ngstown' gg;o' eiaio 3hio;
and Loughlin Steel Company. Pitts
! dent International Harvester Com
j pany. Chicago: Silas ]. Llewellyn,
president Interstate Iron and Steel
! company, 'HtcdSU, " iliis
| president Pittsburgh Steel Products
| Company. Pittsburgh: Price Mckin-
ney. Mckinney steel Company, Cleve,.
! land; Clayton Mark. chairman Steel
| and Tube Company of America
! Chicago; William G. Mather. prest..
/ dent. Cleveland Cliff Iron Company OF
/ cleveland; George w. Meridinshaus
president National EnamelinE and
! Stamping Company. Granite city. Ill.
{ William r. Palmer. president Ameri
| can Steel and Wire Company Cleve-
| land: T. Leonard Replogle: president
| Vanadium Corporation of America
New York: Frank Richards, NJ A;
/ Hanna Company, Cleveland; Percival
Roberts. jr.. United States Corporation
Rogers, Brown & Co. of Buff
! falo: John A Topping. chairman Re-
tpublic Iron and Steel Company. New
| York: Earnest T. Wier. president
Weirton Steel Company. Weirton. W
| va: Jesse f. Welborn. president Col
! orado Fuel and Iron Company. Den.
yer, Colo; T. II. Wickwire. president
| wickwire Steel Company. Buffalo, N
jY.; Horace S. wilkins. chairman
i Crucibie Steel Company of America
| Syracuse, n. Y; II. n. Williams, presi-
| dent Canadian steel Company, Pitts
burgh. Pa: Richard D.. Wood. chair
| man Allen Wood iron and steel Com
i pahy. Philadelphia: A. H. Woodward
| chairman Woodward Iron Company
! Woodward, Ala