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Show MITCHELL IN NEW YORK Held a Conference With Senators Quay and Penrose. New "York. Oct. 8. President John Mitchell of the United States Mine" Workers- arrived at the Pennsylvania station at Jersey City tonight, having come on a Lehigh Valley train from Wilkesbarre With him were District Presidents Nich-olls. Nich-olls. Fahey and Duffy. They went immediately im-mediately to the Ashland house, this city. ' Mr. Mitchell was asked if he : had come to hold a conference with 'the operators, op-erators, but he declined to say.- He refused re-fused to answer all Questions and to say how lone he would be in the city . . . Mr. Mitchell bad . the appearance of having been under severe mental and physical strain. but , assured questioners that he was in jrood health, though tired At 10 o'clock this evening Mr. Mitcheli i ' . J called ud Wilkesbarre bv telephone, the reason being that he had expected some telegrams which he did not find awaiting await-ing him. Shortly after this he turned to the newspaper men and said: "The information has been conveyed to me by telephone that a total of 260 local unions have reported unanimous votes against resuming work. The men are not deterred from going to work through any fear of bodily harm, but are resolved to remain out until the differences differ-ences between them- and the operators are arbitrated or until they are ordered to return bv their leaders. "This leaves about forty or fifty local unions to hear from vet. The unanimous action includes the votes of strikers not members of the union, but who were' present at the meetings and voted with the union men." . At 11 o'clock President Mitchell and two of the district presidents went from the Ashland house to the Fifth avenue hotel, where Senators Quay and Penrose of Pennsylvania and Louis N. Hammer-ling Hammer-ling of Wilkesbarre were registered. Mr. Mitchell's conference with Senators Sena-tors Quay and Penrose lasted for an hour and three-ciuarters. At its conclusion conclu-sion Mr. Mitchell returned to the Ashland house. He declined to say a word as to his talk with the senators and the latter left word with the clerk at the Fifth Avenue hotel that they would not see the cards of any persons who might wish to interview them. |