Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1935, Page 25

MINERS OVERTY PLTUREDINCORT Social Workers Testify as Government Fights Guffey Act Suit. By the Associated Press A picture of poverty in coal fields ‘was painted today as the Government sought to show the importance of the Guffey act to human welfare, Three social service workers ap- peared in District of Columbia Su-! preme Court to describe conditions in West Virginia, Kentucky and Alle- gheny County, Pa. Constitutionality of the act was questioned in a suit filed by James Walter Carter, presi- dent of the Carter Coal Co., operating | mines in West Virginia. Miss Mary Elizabeth Skinner of the Children’s Bureau testified that mine | families in West Virginia and Ken- | tucky lived in unsubstantial board | houses, unplastered within and weather-beaten without. | Their diet, she said. often con- sisted of corn bread and thin gravy, | and school teachers often took part | of their own meager salaries to feed | the undernourished children. | Fewer Sagging Porches. | Miss Nell Scott of Pittsburgh told of similar conditions in Allegheny County, Pa. | Her one comment as to recent im- | provement was: “There aren’t as many | sagging porches as there were in 1928." Malcolm Ross, an employe of the Nutional Labor Relations Board, de- scribed his experiences in West Vir- ginia and Kentucky in 1931 and 1932. One example he gave was a miner, who worked eight days in a month, | earning $10. Charges for services by the company amounted to $11.30. This country’s only .woman coal operator went to court yesterday to indorse the price-fixing and collective | bargaining furidamentals of the Guffey coal act. Miss Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and prin- cipal owner of the Rocky Mountain | Fuel Co. of Colorado, testified she re- WOODWARD 10™IH™F an G garded stability of coal prices as both “necessary and desirable.” Contracted With Unions. THE EVENING 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBHKR 13, 1935. VILLAGERS LYNCH FOUR Shortly after she became president | Mountaineers Break Up Bandit and general manager of the company in 1927, Miss Roche said, her recogni- tion of the principles of collective bar- gaining led to negotiations of a con- Gang After Pitched Battle. ‘WARSAW, November 13 (#).—The tract with the United Mine Workers | Carpathian Mountain section of Po- of America and settled serious labor|land was quiet today after the en- troubles besetting the firm. The contract resulted in ‘“very raged populations of several villages had broken up & gang of bandits, definite gains” for both management | ynching four. and the workers, she said, adding the increased cost of production was *‘sub- Aroused by the murder of & member of a speciai guard for detense against stantially met” by an increase in the marauders, the villagers attacked the output of individual miners and other improved conditions. Slum Clearance. ruffians, lynched four and police cap- tured the others. > ‘The terrorists had wounded two persons in addition to slaying the Perth, Scotland, has started a slum | guard in recent open warfare with the clearance campaign. WOODWARD 0™ ™ F avw G STREETS villagers. & LOTHROP Puose Dismuicr 3300 Learn How Easy It is to Make HOOKED RUGS Be sure to see this interesting demonstration of the art of making Make your own—you esting and economical hooked rugs. will find it both inter- . Sizes 24x36 to 36x70. 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