Show 16 MINERS SEE STATE MO Am Hunger g r and Suffering in l. l K Kentucky nt Told to Governor r FRANK ORT Ky Ivy Aug AuS' 16 CAP AP Fifteen thousand coal miners and their families were described to Governor Go Sampson to today JD as In hi need 0 of ci help as asa a result of ot the prolonged J labor b r In the western Kentuck Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tuck tucky coal cOlli fields 4 Differences over wa wage wae c. c scales and J 1 r conditions ns caused a a- shut shut- don d m n last Jast April 1 J and arid the reopening reopenIng reopenIng reopen reopen- ing ing- of 0 some some of ot the mines within n reven recent ent weeks weeks' has been followed b by bya a a. series erles of oC that J q ted last Monday In an airplane raid on on Webster county in which I nine nino bombs were dropped To Today ay a delegation said to In Include In- In chide clude both workers and strikers appealed appealed ap ap- ap- ap pealed to the chief executive for tor aid ald T Their spokesman W. W O. O Smith county count attorney of or Muhlenberg county o told the governor go THOUSANDS HUNGRY An intolerable and unprecedented ed- ed exists Thousands of m men n. n women and children are hungry hungry hungry hun hun- gry and many many of ot them thern are actually starving tarvIn I fear car that these unfortunate unfortunate people may be ho overlooked o on account of ot the national calamity brought about by the worst drouth in n history Today Toda aged and decrepit women omen aro are walking the highways highways' barefooted baret bare bare- t f footed begging for i stale tale bread Coal miners are arc actually living Jiving on th the th income e they receive from the sale U of ut yellow jellow root root dug from the forest Thousands of oC them have ha no work I at t all aH nono none of them more nore than onci one onea i io a three days a a. week weel ASK GOVERNMENT AID Mr Smith asked the governor tofIt to toUA u UA fIt his influence to adjust the differences dif diC- dif dif- between the operators and the miners and said a a. contract providing pro pro- viding a uniform wage scale wa was necessary to settle Kettle the tho trouble Go Governor Sampson said he knew of or the situation and that his first m move ve would be an attempt to bung bring about bout peace between the operators and the miners He is giving a reception tonight to labor leaders William WilHam Green president or ot orthe orthe the American Federation of tabor and several other union leaders ar are expected to attend and it St was 15 cx ex expected somo some move might be made then |