In May 1941, the Japanese invading army occupied Taozhuang, treating the miners as slaves, trampling and killing them at will. They use the simplest equipment to carry out predatory mining.
Under the rule of the Japanese invaders, the miners had no personal freedom at all. After the miner Gao Meiyao received two shovels in the furniture room, he felt hungry, went to the west gate to buy something to eat, but ran into the Japanese army, saying that he was stealing, did not ask the green and red, pulled him into the cell, pressed him on the bench nailed with iron tribulus, the skin and flesh were stuck into the iron tribulus, the blood was direct, the pain was unbearable. Later, he hung up his arms and filled him with three pots of chili water in a row.
Miners not only have no personal freedom, but also no freedom of speech. Worker Liu Jiyun, who lives in QingquanZhuang, earns three catties of red grain by working hard in the mine. One day, when the grain was distributed, there was an administrator surnamed Niu who touched Liu Jiyun's grain to the ground, and he felt distressed, sent a few complaints, and even annoyed the administrator surnamed Niu, handed Liu Jiyun over to the Japanese army, said that he "passed the eighth road", let him lie on the ground, pressed a stove and a pocket of grain, and forced him to crawl. Liu Jiyun was crushed and died of hatred within a few years.
In addition to being beaten and scolded, miners were often tortured by drinking kerosene, calcium carbide (acetylene), bayonet piercing, wolfhound bites, and pepper water.
In 1942, the stonemason Zhang Yunkuan dodged the coal truck next to the railway, and was seen by the Japanese Toshima that he was lazy, put his head on the head, and was immediately knocked unconscious, and then expelled from the mine.
In order to plunder more coal, the Japanese army urgently needed to replenish the labor force. In the spring of 1942, by deception, 500 victims were recruited from Kaifeng, Henan Province, and armed escorts were sent down the well to work, and after going to the well, they were locked up in a prison-like labor house (small brick house). There were no beds in the labor room, some rotten grass on the floor, and a dozen people were crammed into a ballast house. In the summer, flies, mosquitoes, fleas are all over the ground, and the smell is pungent. Bunkers were built around the house, power grids were pulled up, and laborers were shot if they walked out of the yard. The laborers were forced to work 12 hours a day underground continuously, without pay, but three meals a day in a nest mixed with "pig hair" on acorn noodles, and even boiling water was not drunk. They were so thirsty that they had to drink a few dirty water from the gutters in the laneway, causing diarrhea among many miners. There was a laborer working in the alley, because of the diarrhea for days, full of sweat, and his heart was panicked, and he couldn't help but hold the handle and lean on the coal wall to catch his breath. At this time, the head rushed to the ground, whether dead or alive, the split head cover face was a few sticks, so that the patient fainted and could not move. The workers carried him to the well, and he left the world the next day with hatred. In just two years, these laborers were tortured by people who did not look like people, ghosts were not like ghosts, they were all skinny, they were stumbling, most of them could not support their work, but the Japanese army still forced them to go down the well to do heavy work, so most of these 500 laborers died of illness and torture, except for a few who escaped, there were very few survivors.
When entering the mine, the miners had to salute the Japanese and pull out their "good citizen certificates" to be inspected. If the salute is not proper, it will be slapped; if you forget to take out the "good people's certificate", you will be beaten and bleeding. Countless miners were beaten at that time.
In order to rule Taozhuang, the Japanese army arrested more than 40 miners twice in the name of fornicating with the "Eight Roads" from 1942 to 1943, and took them to the northeast on a train. Except for one person who escaped to Zibo Ande and survived, the others are unknown.
The Japanese army was extremely unconcerned about the lives of the miners, the safety was not guaranteed, there were many accidents, and they only cared about looting coal, but did not ask the miners whether they were alive or dead. A inclined well coal truck enlarged and slid, hit and killed 3 workers, pulled up with a coal truck, placed in a hut, and the body was parked for several days without anyone asking, and then the family of the deceased came to pull it away.