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Show I 12-HOUR DAY IN STEEL WILL END Owners Discuss Abolition Df Long Hours at White I House Dinner WASHINOTON. May 1 -r'' manufacturers in conference at tho White House Thursday With President Presi-dent Hardin approved the Pre" dent's Bugreetlbri In principle fortne abolition of the 12-hour work aay. The 41 representative leaders of tnr industry who were present uanimous-tv uanimous-tv adopted .1 resolution authorising The president "f the Amen, in Bteel ,ind iron Institute to nam.- a committee com-mittee of tlvi from the- steel Industry to make a scientific and careful investigation in-vestigation of the matter and to i -port their conclusions to the maui i try judge Elbert H. Gary, ehalrmnr, of the board of directors of the 1 lilted States Steel corporation and president; of the Institute, will name the coin-mlU" coin-mlU" GARY'S STATEMENT The president stated," Jnd. Gar: I "that he did not desire to In-1 terfeM With the natural and legltl-, date progress of business nor to 00 inythlftg excepl to assisl Industry to meet If possible what is apparently i strong public sentiment. He gave opportunity to nil present to atpress their views of the subject, under In-! QUlry and advantage was freely taken j of tho invitation. fter a full, frank and free discussion dis-cussion at which all present favored j abolishing the 12-hour day. when ( md if practicable," Judge Gary con tinned, "a resolution SU adopted In it warn unanimously resolved: I that a cominltco of five irom the steol Industry be appointed by the president of the American Steel and iron Institute to make a scientific and careful Investigation and to re-I port to tho steel Industry their finding find-ing "The mectlnc waS har tilous ana It is hoped much Kod may result." Judge Gary Indicated the the members of the committee would bo selected shortly The conference occupied more than three and a half hours. The visitors; were, served dinner and then went, into conference over the president's suggestion for the doing away with ( the 12-hour day. Most of the steel men expected to go direct to their homes from tho conference. ( H ATS INFORMALLY. Thee departure of tho guests from the White House bore out the presl- , dent's statement of the informality of . the meeting as the president chatted with the departing guests in the entrance en-trance as they were t iking their leave The steel manufacturers Were invited in-vited to tho White House, according to an official statement Issued earlier ear-lier In the evening, to discuss a suggestion sug-gestion of the president that the I -hour work day bo abolished for the good of industrial America. Judft Gary, acting as spokesman for the guests when tho party dispersed, said the lolS purpose of 'he conference was to consider the question "Whether or not it is practicable and desirable! to abolish tho 12-hour work day." No commitments were made by the steel men. nor were any plans made for consideration of the proposed abolition abo-lition of tho long work day in the near future, It was said. Judp-- Gary and Mr. Schwab were the principal spokesmen for the steel men, although al-though virtually all were called on to e.pre--i their views CRAVE LARGE CHECKS. The guests at the dinner, without exception It was said, recognized the desirability of putting in the eight-hour eight-hour shift, but many difficulties were pointed out to President Harding, tho principal obstacle in the view of the mill owners being that most of the laborers were foreigners who wanted to work 1 n k hOUM, In order to re- eie the High pay, make a "stake" and return to their mother countries. The mills could not got American 1 1-bor 1-bor to stand the "heat and the muck" of 0WTk in the mills, It was asserted The president was told of the comparatively com-paratively few small mills in the country, such as the Colorado Fuel & Iron, anil tho small rolling mills uf tho International Harvester company, com-pany, which have had the eight hour day in force for several years, It Was pointed out that the nature of thp steel business is sueh th it there is no middle ground, the fires have to be kopt going and the break can lo made only in the shift to 12 hours or eight hours, making two or three shlf ts of 'he 24 hours, |