The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-29
VIII NOT
work TOGETHER,
Another Phase Of the Race Prob1em-The White
Man Will Not Work Shoulder to Shoulder
With Sambo- Begets No Broth.
er1y Sympathy With Him.
An Experiment In the Negroes
North Carolina Making tie Test. II May
Work and II May Not.
Pertinent Press Comments Spirit
Which II .

Pertinent Of v,sw and the sp,r. viii
Which II is Regarded
\ NEGRO reaching Importance is discovered
~ by newspapesin the negr
~ labor cotton mill at Charleston S C. This
oorns to the Mobile Ala Register has general
any labor incident o. past The Register
In the revolution in cotton mill o the
south secondly raises question whether
erng the accepted employed and lastly if
u will result in the cheapenins the mill product that
goods and from southern mills will
petition with the mill products of the
latter proposition
the southern manufacturers
the employment of labor manuactur
ers the United States that they enabled
Dor and the time with foreign
theory the ms
south say can not prove remuneave The claim that while
white operatives more than
counerbaance the difference Whether theory good
mains to be proven by experience"
The question according commentator concerns white labor both
north and south throwing
labor the acceptance of the paid opera
v have never been paid high the New
Register
While the southern operatives wages claimed that
this difference than
less the south than England claim that
the operating strongest element in cope
hton that they have
operatives southern mills through the pp
enson felt the new labor satisfactory profitable
production Of cotton goods in the will be
production Of the finer production the
highest class labor needed higher wages the
constituted successful may be that will
whiteopetvs to mills employing only machinery
cotton goods and in that the
ton with the same class of mills in New England they
manufacture of the lower grades of goods
replying certain allegations made re
gardng the change publishes the following statements;
of the Charleston Cotton Mill preferred white labor
They could not get one fifth the white labor they needed
brought elsewhere was very unas
factory but they kept it for ten years
Third During those steadily money year
reorganized and recapitaized
Fourth wholly untrue that the
by majority of Massachusetts, stockholders
the then president the
Confederate soldier urged the directory allow him outfit
help and only from necessity that used
Sixth The hands proving entirely satisfactory
will be made 50 long they continue to be satisfactory"
The the white operatives
forth in address to the public which part:
pcude competing the office
holder should preclude him from competing
industry put danger
proximity with maden they be deprived opportunities his
Office poiton loved and like money gluttoned
and southern aptates inclined degrade the Caucasian blood would
brave hearts not to sit supne by and witness this horde
the pursuits mothers wives widows daughters
and rob them of their living"
Transcript repeats observation
Thomas Fortune editor New York
problem satisfactory
work
quotes Washington letter which takes the position
umed by the late Henry Grady Atlanta the New
Offering solution that since the poor blacks and the pr whites of the
constituting population support
selves and refuse work rather the whites refusing work with the blacks
they labor problem within labor problem
labor force the south for and half has been black In this
spect the Afro American has the right Mr. quotes literally
from utnc others his
the south equal superior the white labor
supply and illustration disadvantage
by the attitude of the white laborers he
Last winter in the city of Atlanta the ordinary laying co
Auburn houghfae which Am
than other Americans the
hurry get the work done they did white help they
compelled to hire black help but the whites refused work in the
with the blacks grouey enough the divided off
with the hundred
foreman
certain standard But this all The black
layers received for their than the white that
the whites received S 80 and the black d. @ ha talk with
the black about the matter and while they thoroughly alive
injustice done them they help
glad to get work Of remuneration Whatever
so this anh against the blacks the white abore
the south tbs employers will benefit perhaps
ions that the time should when the white and black will
gether in demand for higher wages"
Conflicting views the probabilities Charleston
men represented by the following utanc the News and Courier
y NJ