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The day begins like all other days in the mine, when Christina suddently hears Maria calling.
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"All of you in tunnel 5, stop working and line up in the main tunnel - NOW !"
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"Hey - Stop hacking Jane - Maria says, we must come !"
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All the way down through tunnel 5, the slaves stops working uncertain of what´s happening.
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"What do you think is going on Nina?" "I don´t know, but we better go in a hurry."
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"All of you, line up and wait !" The order from the managers of the mine is to get rid of twenty slaves, so the rest will not become lazy from doing less work.
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It will take to much time selecting the weakest ones from all over the mine. It is much more easy just to pick a whole tunnel full, and the foreman picked tunnel 5 because there are twenty-one slaves working in it today.
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"Flappy Tits - You shall push the waggon. Do it now, if you don´t want to climb up on it yourself !"
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Christina knows, she has no choice. If she don´t do as she is told, she will hang to.
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Despair speads through the row of slaves, but they all knows there is nothing they can do other than wait for their turn.
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A newly abducted woman tries in vain - "Please Master - I have only been here since yesterday. Why have you put me in chains if you don´t need me? I swear by God, I will never tell anybody about this mine, if you will give me back my shoes and underclot
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But neither pleas nor tears helps. All the slaves from tunnel 5 have to go !
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One or two at a time are left kicking in their leg irons, making a loud rattling noise.
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"NOO - Please do not take my daughter!"
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"Don´t worry - You will stay together. Maria - Tie their hands, so we can get on with it!"
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Durring the next hours Christina has to push the waggon away again and again, while the number af waiting women and girls rapidly decreases.
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At last all twenty slaves are hanging from the beams, where they will remain until tomorrow, when the garbage collectors will drag them to the bone pits.
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Christina returns to work, knowing she has been very lucky. She is the only surviver from the 21 slaves who had worked in her tunnel.
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Soon after slaves from other tunnels and shafts arrives to tunnel 5 and by evening Christina has got herself some new mates.
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The order to reduce the number of slaves had come from the head management of the company, It was not the idea of the foremen in the mine.
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The foremen´s bonuses are depending on how many tons of coal there are pruduced, and they don´t want to lose money only because of a decision done in a distant office. The remaing slaves must work harder !
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Immediately after they have been kicked awake and been unchained, the hard work begines.
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Knowing they will be punished if they don´t meet the new quotas, the women and girls are straining themselvs to the utmost.
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"Oh no - My back hurts - I can´t."
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