Show SLAVS OPPRESSED Ten Men Ragged and Half Starved Tell a Story of Their Terrible Terri-ble Suffering New York Jan 10Ten Slavs ragged and half starved have arrived here from Toms Creek Va whither they went six weeks ago with thirtytwo others on the promise of steady work In a coal mine at S250 a day They toll a story of oppression that has caused the Austrian Ambassador at Washing ton Baron Hengelmuellcr to start an Investigation with the object of freeing free-ing tho men still at the mine and of obtaining redress for their wrongs After having been hired the men were taken to the little town of George on the Baltimore Ohio railroad whence they drove twenty miles across country The next moraine each man received several sticks of dynamite and some petroleum These are your tools they were told They will cost you 40 and we will take It In Instal ments out of your pay The men worked eleven hours the first day At night they received GO cents each instead of 2DO and they protested But they were told to be careful of their money as they would I be expected to pay part ot the cost 01 their materials out of i at the end of the week This condition of affairs continued contnued for three weeka Then the fortytwo two men escaped AH but ten were recaptured re-captured and taken back to the mine |