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Show Workmen Kept In Peonsge. Now York. Tho cases of alleged peonage In building Henry M, Flag' ler's Florida East Coast .railroad; which havo boon ponding In tho federal courts for nearly two years, were put on trial on Tuosday. It Is charge that tho defendant's employment agent and others hired men in New York and took them to Florida tq work on the railroad. The complaint! alleged that the workmen were kept Ihoro In camps In a state of "peon-nge. "peon-nge. slavery and enforced servitude." Tho government has nearly 300 witnesses. |