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Show NEW INDUSTRIAL I CcaBact I Second Effort of President Wilson to Settle the jjjl Chaotic Conditions That Have Prevailed for H Months in Industry Is Hoped to Be Successful; ' I President Desires Men Called to Have Special H Regard for Justice and Fair Dealing With Workmen and Puhk. H 1 J WASHINGTON. Dec- 1. Seven-1 Iteon men representing no particular I group as such, but acting for the people as a v. hi. assembled here to day to confer on the country's Industrial Indus-trial Bltuatlon The conference, the appointment of-i which was announced from the Whit House November 2. ntark:i the sec-( olid effort of President Wilson to de-vige de-vige means for nettling the chaotic conditions that have prevailed for i months in industry, it .as aimed to accomplish what the recent national1 I industrial conference failed on. The op?nlny session was set for 2:30 c'clocU. I In the words of President Wilson the ' new representative" should have concern that our industries ma;, be conducted with such regard tor justice, and fair dealing that the workmen will feel ihi mselvcs induced to put .forth then best cflorts. th.u ihe employer em-ployer will have an encouraging profit !and that tho public will not suffer at : the hands of cither class." Organized Labor Ditsat.sf icd. Organized labor has expressed dis- j satisfaction with the personnel of tbi conterence because no labor men were i named, although the claim every other interest was represented The j conferees, former federal and state j officials, business men and economists, are as follows. Secretary of Laboi Wilson, Thomas W Gregory. Austin. Tex.; former Attorney At-torney General George w. Wicker sham, New York lawyer, attorney general In Taft cabinet; Oscar S. Strnu.- N v. York, diplomat, lawyer and author, secretary of commerce and labor tinder Roosevelt; Frank I Taussig; Washington, political econonv 'ist. former college professor, and chair-I chair-I man of the I'nited States taritf com-'mission: com-'mission: Samuel W McCall, Boston lawyer former governor of MaeagV chUSetts; Herbert Hoover, mining en yineer. and former food administrator; Martin H Glynn, Albany. N. V , news-paperman news-paperman and former gOV i nor of New I York; S. G Stuart, business man. and J former governor ot Virginia. Presby-Iteriati Presby-Iteriati minister, and president or Ohio State university; George T. Slade, St. Paul, railway man and lleutenant-col-lonei uith A. B. P.: Julius Roeewald, Chicago merchanl and philanthropist; O. D Young, New York lawyer Henry J. Waters, agricultural economist, and 'former president of Kansa State college col-lege of agriculture; Stanley Kinu. liosion lawver. loriner member ol Hie I ouncil of National Defense and assistant assist-ant secretary of war: Henry W. Robin -.n. I'a.-adeiia, former member I nited State shipping board. Richard Hook jer. Springfield, Mass., newspaper man Conserving Fuel- LINCOLN. Neb.. Dec. 1. Reduction Of business hours, curtailment ofglregl I car service and the closing of schools were among fuel conservation meas lures in effect here today. They were adopted yesterday by the city's fuel committee, members of which win meet late today with the regents ot the University Oi Nebraska to decide if the university is to close to help save coal. Le vis at Home. SPRING! ELD, III Dec L John L. Lewi. acting president of the United Mine Work- is of America, refused to make an comment on the future I course of the miners in the bituml 1 ROUS coal strike cr io diaCUgfl the pos- Ibillty of a settlement 'his morning. Mr, Lewis, upon arriving here yes-terdag yes-terdag fiom Washington, said h- had nothing to say regarding the unsuc- j cessful conference Washington Ho said he traa home to rest. He indi eated he was considering giving out : a statement this afternoon. Attempt to Mine, i fl PITTSBl'RG. Dee. ; For the firs' i; I time in more than a generation an at- j tempt was made today to operate as non union the union coal mines in the t Pittsburg district where 42,000 miners have been idle. The attempt to re-sume re-sume operations wan based on the II per cehl ln reasj (nt w ages ordered granted the miner's, by ,f,c government. Notices were ptstcd at all mines in r the district Saturday Informing the idle miners of the increase. 1 1. icials "i dlf ' ricl Ave, United Mine Workers are confident the experiment will fail while i peratora for the most part refrained from prophecy. Coal Train Derailed. PITTSBURG, Kas . Dec. 1 A (rain with Kansas national guardsmen and oluntet r coal -trip pit workers en route here, was derailed at Humbolt last night. Reports indicated that th i rain ran into an open switch. No one reported injured. The train continued on its way lo 1 Pittsburg after Bevera! hours' delay. j Thirteen bundred ldiers and vclun-tet vclun-tet r workers arrived this moruing The j first detachment of workers wi'l be ! started for the shovel pits about ten Wearing army uniforms) many of .which bore insignlas of overseas divib . hi qs, the nrst coiuing'-m of the volunteer volun-teer Workers who are to dig coal In th assssn strip pit mines of the Pittsburg field. arrived here early today. ! KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Dec. 1 Re ports of the derailment of a Iroop train at Humboldt Kans , received at jjj I the of(ice3 of the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Pe railroad here. Indicated i lie possibility, officials said, ol a switch being thrown as the train WS j passing over L aaaggg! The engine and tirst two cars or the pet lal had pegged the switch, reports ' said, and the next eight cars were derailed. de-railed. The last two cars of the Iraki I did not leavethe rails. |