Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1931, Page 5

THE EVEN WEDXNESDAY, JULY ‘15, 193 MINE HEAD BLAMES OPERATORS FOR DISTRESS OF STRIKERS HON;: . C 333553>3>> J/ ALUE is what interests you—and VALUE ie she uppermost interest of Saks. Here is an immense eveni—sioretride in its scope—demonstrating the VALUE STRENGTH of this store MORE MINE RELIEF MEETINGS CALLED Secretary Doak Announces 2-Day Session With Union Representatives. Purther conferences will be held in an effort to better economic conditions in the bituminous coal mining ‘ndustry, it was announced yesterday by Secre- tarv of Labor Doak, after a two-day n with representatives of the United Mine Workers “The conference was the second in a series Secretary of Commerce Lamont and Secretary Doak are holding at the direction of President Hoover in an effort to which all elements interested in the coal industry may be brought around & common conference table. Hoover Asked to Intervene. John L. Lewis. president of the United Mine Workers, has asked Presi- | dent Hoover to call an economic con- ference Dosk did not indicate who would be invited to future conferences. “We have heard both the miners and | operators,” he said. “but have reached | no conclusion There will be further conferences before a final report is made to President Hoover, but 1 do not know at this time who they will be with.” National Miners Out. Asked whether the National Miners’ Union would be invited, Secretary Doak sald that it had eliminated itsell when 1t notified President Hoover last Thurs- day that it was against suchs an as- sembly. Lewis. who headed the mine workers here, said they wanted a national con- ference so rights of the miners to unite in their home communities would be | respected. AMERICAN W(.JMEN SET STYLES FOR BRITONS English Fashion Editor Says U. 8. Femnine Dress Is Recognized Superior. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. July 15.—The American woman has become the style leader for her English sister, Miss Louise A. Coury. ©o-editor of the Queens. English fashion magazine, sald yesterday on her ar- rical on the liner Olympic 8he came, she said, to study Ameri- ean fashions and homes, England long having recognized the American wom- an as being better “turned out” in dress than English women. In fact, she added, English women like the styles of America more than they do those of France. They also appreciate the value of labor-saving devices for the American home, she said, and she will study them in an effort to learn how they may be introduced into English homes. District of Columbia and Maryland- Generally fair, with continued high temperature tonight and tomorrow: gentle southwest winds becoming va- riable Virginia—Generally fair, with con- tinued high temperature tonight and tomorrow. except showers and slightly cooler in extreme southwest portion this afternoon. moderate southwest winds becoming variable. West Virginia eontinued warm tonight and tomorrow. Record for Twenty-four Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m. 76: 8 p.m.. 82: 12 midnight, 78; 4 am., 74. 8 am., 80 noon. 91 Barometer 4 pm. 2095 8 pm. 2095, 12 midnight, 20.95. 4 a.m, 20.93; 8 am. 20.94; noon, 20.94 Highest temperature, 95, occurred at 2:30 pm. vesterday Lowest temperature, 72, occurred at 8 am. today Temperature same date last year— Highest, 81. lowest. 67 Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide. 1.54 a.m. and 2:50 pm. high tide. 743 am. and 8.13 pm Tomorrow—Low tide. 2'43 am. and 335 pm. high tide, 832 am. and 904 pm The Sun and Moon. Today —Sun rose 4:34 am.. sun sets 733 pm Tomorrow sets 733 pm Moon rises 4 34 am . sets 814 pm Automobile lamps tn be lighted one- half hour after sunset Rainfall. Comparative figures of the monthly rainfall in the Capital for the first seven months .gmn the average are shown in the following table Average 8Sun rises 4 54 am.. sun May .. 484 ins June 2.12 ins 4711ins. July 320 ins Record rainfall for the first seven months was January, 1882. 7.09 inches; PFebruarv. 1884, 634 inches. March. 1891, inches. April, 1889, 913 inches 1889. 1069 inches. June, 1900, tnches. July, 1886, 1063 inches. Weather in Various Cities. -] Weather. Abtlene. Tex Albany. N Y Pt cloudy Pt cloudy R 323238232323233322223223358 New Quianoma cits Philadelph: PELLTEEL PEE L R L EEFEL EL T PR PEL certain if there is ground cn | Generally fair and ! This is the last of five articles describ. ing conditions among the striking sof! coal miners_ whose children, says chot of Pennsyivania, are threate: h starvation. 3 BY ROGER BATCHELDER. PITTSBURGH., July 14 (NANA) . — “T'm sorry to admit it, but children are starving in the soft coal district.” M. J. McQuade, president of the Ben Pranklin Coal Co.. a friendly person in late middle age, sat at his desk, his brow puckered, in his office, in the Park Building. He was commenting on hungry children of the striking soft coal miners. “1 once waz a miner myself.” Mr. McQuade said, “and this thing is damnable. One doesn't sleep well when he remembers that babies haven't enough to eat and no milk to drink. it with the others around here. Then youll know I'm & miner at heart, al- | though as an operator I've fought the boys to the limit when I had to." An hour before a big operator had said: “Depression is everywhere. and nothing can be done about it. Go across the Monongahela River and you will find what you saw in the coal fields.” Mine Owners Blamed. But a trip to Pittsburgh's “Shanty- town” showed nothing of the sort. There was food, and the children gen erally wore shoes. Thirty miles away, in the mine areas, the mothers were barefoot. “It may sound strange,” sald Mr. McQuade, “coming from an operator, and the president of a coal company. but this has not been the fault of the miners. It has been the fault of the mine owners, and the sooner they real- ize that children must not be allowed to starve the better it will be for all of us. “We all saw it coming. The men, Ml{ more particularly the children didn't have enough food. That is dan- gerous, in any line of work. I turned my mine over to the men, to the extent that, they were allowed to organize, and that there was no company store. They were paid in cash, not tokens. and their wives could buy wherever they wished. City Fed Miners' Families. “Gov. Pinchot is right. and we must work the thing out before Winter. In find my mine, the town is forced to provide for the feeding of the children of my miners. “I couldn't pay the men what they should have had: it was impossible. But what they did get was in United | States currency, and they didn’t have 1o g0 to a company store and pay more than they should. In some places $2 in currency gets only $1 in trade. I wouldn't stand for that “God knows,” Mr. McQuade said fer- vently, “that I eouldn't bear the thought of a starving child.” He relaxed in his chair for a moment. “‘See my mine at Moundsville and the people who work there.” he invited. ‘Contrast it with the others. and re- member that I'm still a coal miner We'll get out of it some way. and none this year.” Homes Are Pleasant. A visit to Moundsville disclosed mod- est little miners’ cottages with pleasant porches, secluded by ramblers, and small gardens in the back. The houses were painted and the brief lawns clip- ped. The dwellings might have been | the houses of artisans with $1.000 in- !comes in any villare remote from the cities. Two children, brother and sister, came romping out to the sidewalk. They were laughing. and the set whiteness | mine area was replaced by a healthy tan. “Like a nickel for ice cream?” It had been a stock question put to the strikers' children. Some children {had grasped the money eagerly; some | had run away: others had shaken their | heads because they didn’t know what | the money was or what to do with it | “*We aren't allowed to take mone: the boy said. “only food. sometimes.” “Then you get hungry?” “We did, but daddy is working now. | sometimes three davs a week, and it | makes mother happy. We'll never have trouble again.” Join Labor Federation. Investigation showed that the min- ers had been well cared for by the town, and that special care had been taken of the children. Grown-ups might be hungry. but the children rarely had gotten together at Mr. McQuade's suggestion and joined the American Pederation of Labor. They laughed at the Communists who are everywhere in the soft coal area, and stuck it out. When a man is really down and out. and when his children hecome ill. the Miners' Committee figures out that he should have work two weeks. instead of two days. so the youngsters can be provided for. The miners in better circumstances are laid off, and thic .| plan has enabled every one to hold his head above water. Weighing of coal is .| 80 honest, the men said, that they de- | clined an offer to put one of their own men at the scales | They have many children in the | mine section: one follows another, and | this 18 true in Moundsville, too. But { there is no committee store there where | Boods must be purchased. and where | they so generally cost more than at a chain store across the street. There are none of the metal tokens which prevail elsewhere as substitutes for money. Doctors Are Paid. When children are sick a doctor comes in and is paid in cash. The “patch” where children wander about & GUARANTEE This Gov. Pinchot’s appeal for help for the | But go down to my mine and compare | Moundsville, W. Va., where vou will fof the kids on my place will narve‘ conspicuous in the Washington County | W*‘:' oodsaesieaiteadoadeadsatosfatoiiradoadeadoddodgs : Just Ihink.’ KITCHEN CLOCK in Colors is the offered on Electric Kitchen Clocks. Admits Children Are Starving Under “Damnable” Conditions—Sees Calamity Unless Winter Is Provided for. ‘ln the stench of burning dumpe is ab- | sent, and there is not much sickness. Moundsville merchants welcome the | miners’ trade. because United States | currency is used. and they extend nor- | mal eredit. The company advances a few dollar bills when they are vitally needed, and the miners see that the amount is made L At another mine near Moundsville the men have their company store and their “patch” of wooden homes. They went on strike. and their children are as hungry and as sickly as those in e majority of other places in the mining district. Tn general, physicians in the soft coal area, even company doctors, admit that boys and girls who come from healthy stock, much of it native American, are going to die long before they should unless malnutrition is seri- | ously combated. ‘The miner has become frankly mili- tant, and the children are being reared in an atmosphere of terror, with con- stant clashes between strikers and strikebreakers. The children watch these flights passively. - Character Impaired. | In the hearts of the children is | fear of the law of the companies for which they may eventually work, and they are physically and mentally col- orless, without any of the joys of | childhood. Tt has never occurred to them | to look forward to snything, and be- cause of lack of food they have no stamina. The atmosphere is illustrated by a remark by an officer of the State troopers. “You'll be all right in that straw hat and the suit you are wearing, he said. “But put on a miner's cap and you'll probably be socked.” “How about the children, sergeant>” “That's the tough break. I've got two mystelf. T couldn't stand it, efther, if T saw them starve as the kids are starving around here.” (Copyright. 1931 by ihe North Ame Newspaper Alliance. ‘Tne.) AT C"" Science 75-Foot Dinosaur Found in East Africa. A headless fossil of one of the queer- est monsters that ever inhabited the earth has been discovered by a British Museum expedition in the Tanganyika territory of East Africa. This creature, which belonged to the dinosaur family, was a gigantic “rep- tile-giraffe.” It has been named “Ken- trurosaurus.” The skeleton measured approximately 75 feet in length. It was approximately 23 feet tall at the shoul- der and had a neck nearly 5 feet long. It was herbivorous and. like a giraffe, evidently grazed on the foliage of trees, which it could reach with its long neck It dates from the upper cretacious geo- logical period, approximately 60,000,000 years ago. The discovery, reported by M. F. W. | Migeod, leader of the expedition. is |notable in showing that the African continent was inhabited by dinosaurs, whose skeletons hitherto have been al- most_ entirely found in North America. T.R. H (Copvright. 1931.) LEAVE ON CRUISE Nine Prince Georges Residents Bail With Maryland Group. 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