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Show Havoc Wrought By Wage Cuts Shown i By Human Exhibit CHICAGO April 12 Human exhibits ex-hibits "lo proVc that maintenance i oi way railroad employes cannot live properly on their present, pay today were bruoght before the I'nited States railroad labor board hearing Into the road9' demands for wage ( uts when i Frank P W'alih. union attorney called to the witness stand a number of employes em-ployes who told the board their present pres-ent earnings kept them underfed, un- j lothed and lacking some of the n 1 68-sltles 68-sltles of life. Mrs. Joseph Saboni, srife of a Milwaukee Wis., sectlonhand. was the first witness called by Mr Walsh. ! She told the board that she had to borrow the old coat she wore to make the trip here At the end of her story she turned to the board mem- j bers and said: "I know you won't cut my husbund's pay when you know we cannot live on h 'it he's getting now Mrs. Saboni said her husband's , earnings last month were $70. Her j monthly expenses for bare necessities , for heiself, her husband and then-three then-three children wore given as $40 fori groceries, $30 for meat, $15 for rent and 16.60 for milk Her 1 0-year .old j bby was told by a BChOOl nurse thai, be had Consumption and she took him nut of school, but the doctor said he ,'. is merely undernourished, she testified. tes-tified. Wo fed him mostly on tea. oread and syrup." she said The man without a Job, due to In- j I dustrlal depression, should not be al-1 1 lowed to represent a standard to which other workers should be de-' I flated, railway employes told the rail-road rail-road labor board in declaring that la- j bor should not he treated as a commodity, com-modity, subject to the law and demand de-mand but deserves an ''adequate llv- m,- wage |