From the South last week ugly stories seeped up to Washington of peonage and brutality among workers on the Government's flood control jobs around Vicksburg on the Mississippi. President Hoover received complaints from the Vicksburg Chamber of Commerce. Major General Lytle Brown, Chief of Army Engineers, began a personal investigation on the spot. The American Federation of Labor received a formal report from two investigators of its own.
Along the Mississippi near Vicksburg the War Department has contracted with 19 different companies to move 30,000,000 cu. yd. of earth for new levees...
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