Were They Snubbed?

WERE THEY SNUBBED?

 Manufacturer's Committee Failed to Meet the Operators.

Philadelphia, Oct. 9.- The visit to this city of the committee representing the National Association of Manufacturers 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 to have been fruitless. The committee arrived early Wednesday morning and spent the greater part of the day at the Manufacturers' club awaiting the appearance of the presidents, but none of the latter answered, in person at least, the request of the committee for a conference. Last night the committee issued the following vague statement:

   "The committee of the National Association of Manufacturers came to Philadelphia after meeting John Mitchell and his associates at Buffalo on Tuesday, for the purpose of considering measures by which the coal strike could be ended, and this committee will meet again Oct. 14. D. M. Parry, president; George H. Barbour, Detroit; Richard Young, New York; Frank Leake, Philadelphia."

   After the members of the committee had breakfasted they dispatched a messenger to the office of President Baer of the Reading company, announcing that they were ready to meet the operators. The nature of Mr. Baer's reply is not known, but in answer to a question the railroad president said: "I know nothing about a committee." He declined to make any further statement. President Parry said invitations to meet the committee had been sent to all of 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 their names.         During the afternoon President Parry, in an interview, said:

 "The strike has reached what we now believe is the crisis. We were in hopes of meeting the operators, but owing, to the short notice they received they were unable to be present."