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Show COMMITTEE SNUBBED. Coal Boad Presidents Refused to Confer. Philadelphia, Oct. 8. The visit to this city of the committee representing the National Association f Manufacturers Manufactur-ers for the purpose of conferring .with the presidents of the anthracite coal carrying roads, who last week met President Roosevelt and the officials of the miners' union at Washington, appears ap-pears to have been fruitless. The committee com-mittee arrived here early this morning and spent the greater part of the day at the Manufacturers' club awaiting the appearance of the presidents, but none of the latter appeared, in person, at least, at the request of the committee commit-tee for a conference. Then the committee com-mittee issued the following statement: "The committee of the national manufacturers came to Philadelphia after meeting John Mitchell and his associates as-sociates at Buffalo on Tuesdnv for tho purpose of considering measures by which the coal strike could be ended, and this committee will meet again on Oct. 14. (Signed.) "D. M. PARRY, President. "GEORGE H. BARBOUR, Detroit. "RICHARD YOUNG, New York. "FRANK LEAKE, Philadelphia." After the members of the committee had eaten breakfast they dispatched a messenger to the office of President Baer of the Reading company, announcing an-nouncing that they were ready to meet the operators. The nature of Mr. Baer's reply is not known, but in answer an-swer to a question the railroad president pres-ident said: . "I know nothing about a committee." He declined to make any further statement. state-ment. , President Parry said Invitations to meet the committee had been sent to all the presidents who had met President Roosevelt last week, and that favorable replies had been received from three of them. He would not, however, divulge di-vulge their names.- During the afternoon President Parry, Par-ry, in an interview, said: "The strike has reached what we now believe is the crisis. We were in hopes of meeting the operators today, but owing to the short notice they had they were unable to be present.'. |