Evening star., 1937-10-15
Committee Of 10 to Make
Plans for Enlarged
Conference.
CONVENTION APPROVES
SELECTIONS OF LEWIS
Washington Suggested as Site
of Session During Week
of October rs.
BY JOHN c. HENRY,
STAFF Correspondent OIL The Star


ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., October IS.
The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization today named 10 members
to meet with representatives OF the
American Federation of Labor to make
plans for a reconciliation conference
with an enlarged peace committee
from each faction.
Word of this action was forwarded
to the federation, in convention in
Denver, in telegram suggesting the
proposed preliminary meeting be held
IN Washington during the week of Oc-
tober Is.
The wording of the C. I. O. pro.
posal follows:
The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization is prepared to meet in con-
ference on the basis set forth in its
telegram heretofore mentioned. The
proposal OF the Committee for Indus
trial Organization included a sue-
gested committee Of 100 from each Or
ganization in order to meet the ac-
cepted practice Of democratic labor or
carnations and to afford full repre-
sentation for the unions involved.
Committee of 10.
However, the conference of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton has designated a committee of
10 to meet with a committee from
the American Federation of Labor
to determine the number Of repre-
sentatives for each organization to
attend the proposed conference and
to fix a mutually satisfactory time
and place for such proposed confer
ence.
1T is suggested that this prelim-
mary meeting be held in Washington
during the week OF October IS. 1887.
Please advise.
(SignedD HARVEY FREMMING,
Secretary Pro Tenn"
Membership Of the 10-man confer
ence group was proposed by John l..
Lewis, c. I. O. chairman. and did
not include himself. The selections.
as well as the entire proposal, were
Those named were Philip Murray,
chairman of the Steel Workers Or
ganizing Committee and a vice presi.
dent OF the United Mine Workers: Sid
ney Hillman, president of the ANAL
gamated Clothing Workers; David Du-
binSky, International Ladies Garment
Workers; Harvey Fremming, Oil Field
Workers; James B. Carey, United Elec-
trical Workers; Sherman H. Dalrym-
pie. United Rubbers Workers; Homer
Martin. United Automobile Workers;
Michael Quill. Transport Workers;
Joseph Curran, National Maritime
Union, and Abraham Flaxer State
County and Municipal Workers.
Compromise Not Planned.
The selections give representation to
each Of the backbone" unions af-
f1liated with the c. l.. o.
Murray, serving as chairman of the
Resolutions Committee which brought
the peace reply before the conference
here, emphasized that there is no in
tention on the part of this faction
to compromisl on its principle of in
dustrial organization nor any desire
to be returned to the fold of the
American Federation of Labor. 1t is
the c. I. o. desire, he said, to aid in
establishing unity in the labor move
ment in America.
Lewis, who has been conducting nu-
merous conferences In his hotel room
during two days of slight illness, re-
turned to the open session today to
guide the group in its important
action.
Immediately afterward the confer
ence approved resolution authorizing
the c. /. o. leadership to call ma
tional convention "at such time as
they deem it advisable and expedient."
Many obstacles stand in the way Of
(See c. I. O., Page A-6)