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Show LABORERS VERElitsJBBED. One Way of Securing wen to Build the Panama Canal. Colon. Six hundred nnd fifty laborers labor-ers from Martinique, brought hero Friday on the French otoamor Vcr-lalllca Vcr-lalllca under contract to' work on the canal, retusod to dlsombark or submit to vaccination, which is Imperative under tho American sanitary regulations. regula-tions. They clnmorcd to bo taken back to Martinique asserting ' that thoy bad been misinformed ns to tho conditions con-ditions hero before thoy embarked, nnd that later thoy learned these conditions con-ditions wcro Intolerable and deadly. Saturday morning, however, 500 of thorn woro with difficulty persuaded to land, and these wcro sent to points Uong tho lino of tho canal. Ono hundred hun-dred nnd fifty remained on board and declined to lenvo tho ship under any consideration. Tlicso wero forcibly cjoctcd from tho vessel in tho afternoon after-noon by Pannmn nnd canal zone policemen, po-licemen, but not until nearly overy ono ot them had been clubbod and toveral wero bleeding from nasty wounds. |