Show FLORIDA PEONAGE the mm morida florida peonage scandal will be probed at last sa says ys the inter mountain after a newspaper campaign covering a number of years tho the finally been induced to act tande sam is just learning what the press has known for years ebur alave drevers are now on trial in a federal court in new york the prosecutor in nig his opening statement averred that men have been hold held in the swampy of florida at hard labor a they were lured south by employment agencies and once beyond the pale of civilization brutally beaten it they refused to work they were paid in script good only at tile the stores maintained by their employers where prices were so BO adjusted that nothing remained at the end of tho the month murder was not in frequent frequez Z in short the entire situation was inconceivable this in freo free america yet it has been duplicated in several other southern bouthern states high time that somebody to prison for it yet it is an even money proposition that tha t nobody will be punished |