Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1926, Page 10

10 |.G. C. REPORT HIT BYJOHNL LEWS Mine Union Head Holds Ex- aminer Criticized Wage Scale of Two States. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, in ® letter to the Interstate Commerce Commission assailed the recent report of 2 commission examiner recommend- ing denial of a petition of Illinois and Indiana coal shippers for a readjust- ment of freight rates from those States to the Chicago market as an “‘amazing and gratuitous attack upon.the wage schedules and living standards of the mis orkers employed in the indus- try Illinois and Indiana, and urged a reversal of the findings of the examiner. Coal operators in Indiana are seek- Ing a rate reduction of 35 cents a ton and a widening of the spread between the Indiana rates and those from the non-union West Virginia and Ken- tucky mines. Examiner Disque held that present rates were not unfair and described the minel vage scales in the complainant States as “so much higher than those in non-union fields * that the operators in other State y in meeting “are having er stood it to be e functions of the Inter- » Commission,” Mr. ter down the w: neither have I understood it to be the function of the commission to permit its decislons and rules on the rate quastions to be made the vehicle by an industrial wage \as been done in this precise & Tuhe mine union head pointed out that existing rates were those fixed by the United Bituminous Coal Com®si 20 and asserted it was “extraordinary indeed that an official representative of the Interstate Com- merce Commission would now, as in ly denounce the ormulated and y by another adjustment of the said by Mr. gely from the the rates from the to every principal out of all proportion to the the mines in other SISTER OF “MISS X” DEFENDS EVANGELIST Produces Affidavit by Alleged Oc- cupant of Cottage With Radio Operator. August 2 woman 1 erself to of the mysterious “Miss shared a seaside cottage at Carmel, Calif., with Kenneth .G. Ormiston, radio operator, during a_part of the time Aimee wle McPherson %as missing, 3 told the evangel- n afdavit signed ' to substantiate her state- upant of the cot- sister would tell d and jury which Mrs. McPherson's heen unable to sleep since | appened,” said Mrs. Wise- man. * can't stand by and see another woman_suffer for an indis- cretion in which she was not con- nected in any way.” 3 Mrs. McPher pastor of Angelus Temple here. was missing for more than a month after her disappearance and when she was found told a story of having been abducted and jeld captive. McCormick Medical College Graduate Dr. CLAUDE S. 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