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Show WANT KNOX INVESTIGATE Labor Commissioner Reports Re-ports Bad Condition in Railway Camps. St. Ixniis. Jan. 9 Thomas Holland, deputy st.".' labor commissioner. ha requested Secretary of State Knox to' Investigate labor conditions in raii-way raii-way construction camps In the Canadian Cana-dian Km kles. The action of Commissioner Holland Hol-land was prompted by a letter written writ-ten from the camps by Rudolph Row- man to his mother In Crystal City . I Mo. Dowmau In his letter said life In the camps Is a virtual peonage "from which th.- only escape Is an almost al-most unendurable tramp through 150 miles of mountain wilderness to the nearest railway station." BeTenty-flve men from St Louis went to the construction camps last October and Mr. Holland says he has learned that ;o of these men have broken down as a result of their hardships. |