Show The Rubber Interests I New York 9 A private meeting of rubber manufacturers was held at the Aotor House yesterday at which were present fifteen representatives of leading rubber companies of the United States The convention discussed the question of the advisability of forming a consolidated rubber manufacturers company to include in-clude all the best companies in the country coun-try and after discussing the subject in II te n nnil I 1 L JUU u iti zCCv UU WtloHer to a committee of six manufacturers who will report at the next meeting In accordance with an agreement made last month a number of companies will close their factories tomorrow throw at least 8000 persons out of employment The reason for this action is the high price for crude rubber which manufacturers manufac-turers claim is due to the operations of cliques working toward speculative ends Manufacturers are willing to pay the advance ad-vance price for crude rubber if they could get correspondingly advanced figures for their goOdE |