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Show ; Initial Session of Gathering Gath-ering Called by President; Presi-dent; Labor Secretary Convenes Delegates. Committees Are Chosen and Preliminary Busi-l Busi-l ness Considered ; Rail Brotherhoods Join In. WASHINGTON, Oct. 0. Kepncsen-; Kepncsen-; t a lives of the public evinced a spirited 0 desire for action, rather than oratory, , :it (he opening session today of the industrial in-dustrial conference called by President ' "Wilbon. Apparently with the determination of differentiating r h is conference from . many similar gatherings held 'in Wash-; Wash-; ington, the public's delegates demanded ' that sessions be held night and day, if necessary, 1o establish a basis for har-; har-; inouious relations between capital and labor during the present abnormal eco- nomie conditions. Bernard M. Baruch of New York, one of these delegates, was active in directing the affairs of the conference, which was considered significant in view of his close frieud- ship with President. Wilson and his fre-, fre-, ; quont visits to the White House. After the appointment of committees - on nominations and rules the confer-, confer-, encc adjourned to meet tomorrow morn- ing. Gavin McXab, of San Francisco, ' a representative of the public, was men-' men-' tioned prominantly for permanent f diairman of the conference, but mem-hers mem-hers of both com in it tees declined to indicate what their recommendations .-- would be. ) y PUBLIC'S DELEGATES j! i TO FORCE RESULTS. Motion to adjourn by V. D. Mnhon, , out'' of tlic delegates of the American 3: Federation of Labor, brought the first ; indication that the men named to rep- resent the public were prepared to force I ;'. results. Thomas J,. C'hndbourne of New j - York, who sat, with Mr. Baruch, took the floor immediately. "All the men on both siites and in t " the middle of this hall," Jie said, re-ferring re-ferring to the seating arrangement whereby the delegates of capital and . labor were on either hand of the pub-!, pub-!, '. lie representatives' seats, "are hero to work as rapidly as possible' and to adjourn as little as possible; and 1 ':' know that the men in the middle of -1 this situation want to carry on these conferences day and night, if neces-... neces-... sary, to get through. I would like very much to see the motion changed so wu can meet again this afLemoon or evening." eve-ning." Mr. Mahou explained that a meeting of the executive council of the federation federa-tion had been called some time previously pre-viously which it was impossible to posl-pone posl-pone and Mr. Chadbourne withdrew his suggestion. Later on, however, Mr. McXab took the floor with the same thought, as that expressed by Mr. Chad; bourne. URGES EXAMPLE OF HARMONIOUS DEALING. "In view of the fact 1hat this conference con-ference is in the interest of harmony' he said, ''suppose we set the example of working harmoniously and not making mak-ing the principal and first feature of it a desire to adjourn." I To declared the conference should show the people of the country how to work, but did not press the point and the motion to adjourn was carried. Virtually every delegate was in his scat when Secretary Wilson called the mooting to order in the Pan-American building. John Barrett, director general gen-eral of the union, in welcoming the delegates to the use of the building called attention to the fact that this conference, endeavoring to stabilize industrial in-dustrial peace, was meeting in a structure struc-ture devoted to maintaining the. peace of the western hemisphere. The vry decorations of the hall, he pointed out, bore the word "Pax." BARRETT SPEAKS FOR LATIN-AMERICA. "May I emphasize, ' ' Mr. Barrett said, "that the Pan-American Union is a great, practical, working league of nations the only league of nations in the world that, has long been and is a going concern. It, its governing board, its staff, its equipment and this building form also an actual industrial phuit that manufactures and distributes products of good will and information that make for permanent peace and welfare of the western hemisphere and hence of all the -world. I "During the last thirteen years the j supreme council composed of Latin- , American diplomatic representatives in Washington and the secretary of t hie ; United States, which gathers every month, has prevented, through its moral influence, six wars between the American Amer-ican governments and lxoples. " Secretary Wilson told the delegates they hatj. been given opportunity for splendid'achievement and wished them God speed on behalf of t he president. Only Discordant Element. . The only discordant element affecting j the conference was the absence of John W. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, who is engaged in wage negotiations that threaten a strike, and Frank Duffy of the , carpenters, who was said to have declined to attend the conferences. Officials of the American Federation of Labor, however, said that, as representation - in the conference confer-ence was not on the basis of trades, both miners and carpenters might:- be said to have spokesmen in the other labor delegates. dele-gates. A 11 of the railroad unions sent delegates. After the roll had been called. Paul K : "Feiss of Cleveland announced from the public delegates' section Lha t his name had been omitted in the calling. With some embarrassment, the temporary secretary. sec-retary. Kowla nd B. Mahany of the department de-partment of labor, replied that he had been informed there had been a death in Mr. Feiss's family and, as it was not known whether it was the delegate -himself, his name had been omitted. Mr. , Feiss smilingiy accepted the' explanation j and assurances from Secretary Wilson that his presence in the flesh was very I welcome. ' Alexander's Statement. I The following statement was issued by Magnus W. Alexander, managing director of the national industrial conference board, at the conclusion of the session: "Secretary of Labor Wilson voiced the sentiments of the employers when he declared de-clared in his opening address that the more productive we are the sooner we will replace the wastage of war, return to normal price levels and abolish the opportunity oppor-tunity for undue profiteering, and in his further declaration that- the conference has hefoie it the opportunity for promoting promot-ing the welfare of the country and of all mankind. "The spirit in which the conference begins be-gins justifies the expectation that real progress may he made In settling several sev-eral great questions. "The employers are gratified that the four railway brotherhoods decided to par-licipate, par-licipate, feeling that this makes for the harmonious unity which must be the keynote key-note of constructive accomplishments." No business was transacted, the conference con-ference adjourning until tomorrow to permit per-mit the committees on nomination and rules to prepare reports. These committees commit-tees were nominated by the three groups in the conference as follows: Committees Are Named. Nominations:. Representing employers Herbert , F. 1 Perkins and J. W. O'Ueary. Chicago, and Edar Iv. Marston, Xew York. Representing the public A. A. London, Bdffalo; E. T. Meredith, Des Moines, and Robert Brookings, St. Louis. Representing organized labor Frank Morrison, secretary, and Daniel J. Tobin, treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, and L. S. Sheppard. president of the Order of Railway Conductors. Committee on rules: Representing employers Edwin V. Green, Boston ; Harry A . Wheeler. Chicago, Chi-cago, and V. C. Atkeson. Washington. Representing the public Bernard, M. Baruch. Thomas L. Chadbourne and John D. Rockefeller. Jr., all of New York. Representing organized labor YV. T. Mahon of the street railway union, Matthew Mat-thew Woll. vice president of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, and W. O. Lee. president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. 1 List of Delegates. The revised liyt of delegates announcd today follows: For the public Bernard M. Baruch. New York; Robert S. Brookings, St. Louis; John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. New York; Judge Elbert H. Gary, New York; Dr. Charles W. Eliot. Cambridge, Mass.; John Spargo, New York; O. E. Bradfute, Xenia, Ohio; Ward M. Buruess, Omaha, Neb. ; Fuller R. Galloway. t.a Grange, Ga. ; Thomas L. Chad.hu rne. New York; H. B. Endicott. Dedham, Mass.; Paul L. Feiss. Cleveland; Henry S. T'ennison, Framingham. Mass. ; George R. James, Memphis, Tenn.: Thom-,as Thom-,as D. Jones, Chicago: A.. A. Landon. Buffalo, Buf-falo, N. Y. ; E. T. Meredith, Dps Moines, Iowa : Gavin McNah. San Francisco: I. D. Hewitt. Carbondale. Colo.; Louis Titus, sun Francisco; Charles Edward Russell, New York; Bert M. Jewell. Washington. T C; Lillian Wald, New York; Gertrude Bflrnum, Berkeley, Cal., and Ida M. Tar-bell. Tar-bell. New York. Ciiamber of Commerce of the T'nited States Harrv A. Wheeler, Chicago; Ernest Er-nest T. Trlgp. Philadelphia: Herbert F. Perkins, Chicago; John J. Raskob. Wilmington, Wil-mington, Del., and Homer L, Ferguson, : Newport News, V. i Farmers' orsan-iza 1ons J. N. Titte- i more, Omro. WlA: T. C. Atkeson. Washington. Wash-ington. D. C, a.frd C. S. Barrett, Union i City, Ga. 1 Invest men f Bankers' Association of i America Kdsrfir L, Marston, New, York, , anil Howard VY. Fetuon, Chicago. i Organized labor For the American Fed- i era t ion of Tabor, Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison. Washington, C. : Daniel Dan-iel J. Tobin, Indianapolis; Joseph F. Val- i entine, Cincinnati; W. D. Mahon, Detroit; T. A. Riekert, Chicago; Jacob Fischer. In- : dianapolis; Matthew Woll. V!lshlngtonj , D. C; Mrs. Sara (,'onboy. New York City; William cl. Johnston. Washington. D, C; i Paul Sch arret! hem. San Francisco; John i H. Donlin. Washington, D. C, and M. F. I Tighe, Pittsburg, Pa. i For the four railroad brotherhoods, W. i E. Sheppard, conductors; W. G. Lee, i tminmen; Timothy Shea, firemen, and IT. i E. Wills, engineers. National lndlistrlnl conference Frederick Fred-erick P. Fish, Boston; J. W. O'Loary, Chicago; Pemberton Hutchinson, Philadelphia; Phila-delphia; Edwin Furnham Green, Boston, and L. F. Loiee, New York. |