New-York tribune., 1922-05-19
Steel Men for
Harding Plea to
End l2-Hr. Day

Of frst Importance to industrial Amer
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Almost to the hour of the meeting
the guests were without inform ati on
As to the subject to be taken up. After
an informal meeting at local hotel.
Judge Gary went to the White House
Board Of the United States Steel Cor
poration, went to the White House and
and was closeted with President Hard
ing 1t was assumed that he had gone
as committee Of one to obtain in
formation as to the "agenda,' but on
leaving the White House he would
make no comment on the cenversa-
tion which had taken place.
President. issued the following state
ment from the White House on the din
ner:
"The President had dining with him
company Of nearly fifty representa- :
tives of the iron and steel industry
and Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and
Davis. No announcement Of the pur-
pose Of the dinner was given to the
guests in advance.
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
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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 it before the full swing is re-
sumed.
"The President explained that he had
discussed the matter with individual
heads and found much favorable senti-
ment, but there is 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
sion on q question of such import to
industrial America"
| The statement added that the dinner
was another development Of the Presi-
dents belief that conference was way
to accomplishment"
| List Of Invited Guests
Forty-one leaders in the steel indus
try, in addition to Secretaries Mellon,
Hoover and Davis, were invited to the
dinner. In the list we're Judge Gary,
! "a.
United States Steel Corporation; +;
Charles N. schwab, chairman Bethle-
hem Steel Corporation, and Eugene E.
Grace, president Of the same company;
Leopold e. Block, chairman Of the
! Cult States Steel Company, Birming-
ham, Ala; e. J. Burlington, president
OF the Illinois Steel Company, Chicago; !;
James A. Burden, president Of Burden
Iron Company, New York; James A.
Campbell, president Of the Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Company, Youngstown,
Ohio.
Edmund A. s. Clarke, president Con
George A. Crawford, president Tennes-
see Coal & Iron Company, Birming-
ham, Ala; H. G. Dalton, Pickands,
Mather 4 Company, Cleveland; Alva c.
Dinkey. president, Midvale Steel &
Ordnance Company New York; Will
liam H. Donnor, president Donnor Steel
Company, Buffalo. N. Y; George S.
Downs, president Of Lackawanna Steel
Company, Buffalo. N. Y; c. D. Dyer,
vice president Of the shenango Furnace
Company Pittsburgh; J. H. Foster,
Cleveland; Alexander Glass. chairman
Wheeling Steel Corporation, Wheeling,
w. Va; Thomas X. Glenn, president
Atlantic Steel Company, Atlanta; J. B.
Kennedy, chairman Brier Hill Steel
Company, Youngstown, Ohio; Willis L..
King, vice president Jones & Laughlin
Steel Company, Pittsburgh.
Alexander Legge. vice-president In
ternational Harvester Company, Chi
cago; Silas j. Llewellyn, president In
terstate Iron and Steel Company, Chi
Pittsburgh Steel Products Company,
Pittsburgh; Price Mckinney, president
Mckinney Steel Company, Cleveland;
Clayton Mark, chairman Steel and Tube
Company Of America, Chicago; William
c. Mather, president Cleveland Cliff
Iron Company. Cleveland; George w.
eridr1i.shaus, ID n p 4 president grssident ca1 National
Granite City. H.; William P Palmer,
president american Steel and Wire
adium Corporation Of America. New
York; Frank Richards, M. A. Hanna &
Co., Cleveland; Percival Roberts ir.,
United States Corporation, Narberth,
Pa; William A. Rogers, Rogers. Brown
& Co., Buffalo; John A. Topping, chair
man Republic Iron and Steel Company,
New York; Earnest T. Weir, president
Weirton Steel Company, Weirton. W..
Va; Jesse F. Welborn, president Colo
T. H. Wickwire, president Wickwire
Steel Company, Buffalo, N. Y; Horace
S. wilkins, chairman Crucible Steel
Company Of America, Syracuse, X. Y;
H. D. Williams, president Canadian n
Steel Company, Pittsburgh; Richard D.
Wood, chairman Allen Wood Iron and
Steel Company, Philadelphia. and A. H.
Woodward. chairman Woodward Iron
Company, Woodward. Ala.
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