Show VS M IN LUMBER LAMP CAMP Story of Cruelty Brought by byMan byMan byMan Man Who Sought Work MEN UNDER ARMED GUARDS Ignorant 1 Foreigners lIel Led cl II by Employ Employment ment Agents to 10 Work wl Under I Re Bt Couch Conditions t hums Pensacola Fla Fia Jul July 21 A 21 A horrible stor story of or Inhumanity and cruelty to Ignorant foreigners in the lum lumber cr I II I camps of or Alabama wan wai brought rought to this city today by lIy Henry Rodenbeck a n resident of Fort Wayne In 1 who was induced to seek seel employment at the time camp of or the Jackson Lumber company company com corn pany at Lockhart through the misrepresentation misrepresentation mis mis- representation of or a labor agency in New York He Ie was ivas one of a gang of or 24 H men engage engaged In New York to work for the tife lumber company it b being represented represented represented rep rep- resented that the wages were from to GO ll per Imer day and ana the tho work agreeable le Rodenbeck sal said lob Joh From Labor Agent I 11 hired out in New York YOlk to a man named Gallagher superintendent of the time T Lockhart camp who ha had a l labor agent with wilh him who dl did the talking After Arter being assure assured ed that wages were wele good I acc accepted On reaching the camp we found Coun that the wages were only 1 and amid board Loan There were wele about eighty or 01 ninety immigrants rants there mostly from New York who ho could not speak They were made to eat after th the Americans an and they got what was ivas left leCt When rhion one reached for Cor anything on the time table he wo ww vas yelled at and I have seen geen them grabbed and anti thrown out of doors for fOl trying to get Jet enough to cat caL In the time woods they worked under men who were desperadoes desperadoes despera despera- does docs and who were alwa always s 's armedI armed I saw sav two o of them beaten unmercifully CUll fully with a harness strap and I was told that one man was vas stripped of oC I his clothing anti and beaten with a heavy I riveted strap Tho Time beatings were given because the men did not understand how tl to do the work They were nothIng nothing noth noth- ing lug but greenhorns fresh Cresh from the time old country Gun play was wa a regular thing They ar are arc human slaves Hlaves and anti andare are nac treated wor worse w than dogs |