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Show HUAIAN EXHIBITS PRESENTED FOR IGEEIENT Novel Evidence Introduced .in Hearing on Proposed Cut in Pay for Railroad Maintenance of Way Men CHICAGO. April 12 Human exhibits exhi-bits to prove that maintenance of way railroad employes cannot live property proper-ty on their present pay today were brou it ht he fore the Cnlted State railroad rail-road labor board hearing into the roads demands for wane ruts when ("rank IV Walsh, union attorney, railed to the witness stand a number of em-ployea. em-ployea. who told the hoard their pre- j rnt eirnlngs kept them underfed,, un- , Inthed and lacking some of the neres-Uties neres-Uties of life Mrs. Joseph Sahf.nl. wife of a Mll-iraukee, Mll-iraukee, Wis., section hand, was the tirnt witness called by Mr. Walsh. She told the board that "he had to borrow the old out she wore to make the trip here. At the end of her story he turned to the board member and aid: "I know that you won't rnt my husband's hus-band's pay when you know we can't live on what he's getting now." Mr. Sabonl aald her hushand's earnings earn-ings last month wan " Her month-tv month-tv expense for bare necessities were r!Ve-rrflrtft grnrrTlew.-'.''H Tnr' meat. I1R fr rent and tr f0 for milk. Her 10-vear-o!d boy n told by a school nurse that he hail consumption and she took him out of arhnol. but the doctor an id he was merely undernourished, under-nourished, she testified. "We fed nun mostly on tea, bread and ayrup," ahe aaid. H. S. Hhipman. section fnreman from Prener. Tea., appeared In borrowed clothing to aak for more wigw. Hhipman was one of the "human exhibit ex-hibit a" presented by Frank I. Walsh. attorne renresentln railroad mulnte- laat year, out of which to rlolha, provide pro-vide entertain merit and at hool book fur hla children. Mrs. Kd Hiley, Staples. Minn., wife of a laborer who iretn $" a month. Ha Id Ntie faeed nti vttion if hmki I were reduced. nince of way employes w ho aaked for a JO per cent Increase in iy. SMpman testified he makes but $110 ft month, out of which he has to up-port up-port a wife and alx children. He aald hw ran $14 In debt last yenr and had to drop hla life lnurnri-e and Uike one (if the children out of school, T. B. Osborne. Utwnaker, Va.. fa -ther of elht, aald lie had f-T. rents left |