The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13

States has been greatly increased by the aboii-
ton % slavery and The resdjustnaent q the In
Under the free system the white hog has to root
or die the same as the black ono. for the color OF
and and MI Il. 0 SsS. a4s s,ssGt To 70 sh s,m 1ssss sii sp SSonai.
tons. The one must eat and have proper cloth
ing and shelter Just the same as the Other.
bmoment that slavery was sbolished iabonceased
70 b, degraded in the South, and in the North,
maintained, slavery degraded slave labor and
FREQ labor alike. 30 the abolition. Of slavery
but. strangely enough. the black man. who had
been the pack horse for the whites OF high and
low degree as a slave, WHO was considered as
man Of all work as Q slave, remains .deernded as
q free laborer in the estimation Of the whites,
keep instead Of EavinR some poor black slave
DO Il for them, 1t is q funny. but q natural reyo.
q .ai hSrri 81 oP and nn as e aaei o dignity az 10 % i tSs S,s SSt
free lnborer, for he must have food and shelter
and clothing as q freeman as much as when be
e%aniEed, TO cir cumscribe his pread-earning op-
postunities must be regarded as q conspiracy
cause IL he be cut Oh rom honest labor he will
surely become q PUBLIC charge either as a pau
this conclusion. Indeed. tho criminal Stats
tics. OF the Southern States buttress It impreg-
nably already, and are doing 90 more and moro
The conspiracy e~gainst the black man as a
laborer began in the Northern States long DO
only after the war; and while. as a matter OF
fact, the conspiracy In the North shows unmis-
and sGaHG IN u sasGifi, d o weapshhns Il IN c tse South sf"d aSs
tendency has set in strongly. in tho opposite
direction. not only in the skilled trades. but also
men and women are invading all departments
Of labor in the Southern States. and wherever
prejudice. the conspiracy against black labor.
begins to show itself and to be felt.
,r IN s 5.ilr9Sd %ork ; Of all h sort s.an Sssvs steam nm;
see white men driving tho mules that pull the
not been adopted, for instance, and To see white
men acting as brakefhen and stokers on the
iae she S ssalGsf but Il Il n ass a nos e Be sss so answS Sas
so i is in others, Work which no white man
man win be allowed TO do now. Il Is even be.
coming a common thing to see white men
work Of excavation, section hand work on. rail-
roads, and steyedore work In ports like Calves
I'M TSists Ssw r=ev 0FI1ssns'i n sseSn bat il ina 4 aid ff not Sorf
for the virtual displacement Of the black labor.
or. it would call for no special notice. It would
the crushing out Of slave labor. Of placing all
labor in the Southern States on an equality with
ing to It the element Of dignity which was de-
stroyed By the system Of slave labor.
Of Booker T. Washington as to the attitude Of
the trades unions toward Afro-Amertcan labor
operation of such labor were not only unex-
pected. but also created the greatest dissatis.
the Southern States. which deny to Afro-Ameri-
can lahorers any sort Of afiliation. They felt
that an act of treason had been committed
against their well-de1ned conspiracy against
ticipated that the action would result in the Sc.
Northern parent organizations. This has been
foreshadowed, however. in no uncertain way by
a. p Feb. ionn IL the sb at ts.le - kEsfSm1"q 3,D SS%rf for
Whites" giving details Of q movement TO or.
ganize The Southern Confectionery Of Labor"
chief conspirator in this un-American move
ment is A. F. lowering. editor Of the TocsiH, a
Of the labor organizations" He will have no
trouble in getting together such a convention
as he wants: as there Is an abundance Of the
Southern States which shall be Independent in
Is a Northern man. He does NOT think that the
Northern organizations care anything about
Ne E fSusnssn e Snss: sscss Himself 81 s as foifo sns dues
the Fulton Bag and Cotton Miis I enrofsd
Union and the Federation Of Trades, and I In
variably struck out the clause in regard to col.
people to admit negroes into such orsanizations
because they are not going to do 1t, and l do
% nSs S'l tsSs , tnst should bs i rif f i. and fSr 1 .ss, TO de,
that I am now advocating the call of u .har.
mony conventiol, for the purpose ct efecting q
began aRitating the matter 1 have received
many messages Of Encouragement from labor.
ing people throughout the country. and the de-
mand for the calling Of the convention at an
early date IL persistent. ..
Il am a Northern man myself. but I think
that I can understand and appreciate the feel.
ings of the working people Of the South on the
race question. and I am with them heart and
dependence upon the labor unions and fedora.
tions Of trades In the North"
Nobody will underrate the capacity for mischief
possessed by such a man as Mr.. lowering, He ID
not only the ayowed enemy Of the capitalist en-
ploying class. but also of by far the largest Gle
together the white laboring organization
cerned. and he ought to get all the glory which
inheres In such an achievement
l.b e Is not Of tho sss s soHah TO %il s1 orsani sei 70 t meet as sSi'
conspiracy. I mean the skilled laborers.
They have a #. great many orsa51i1 ,antioo ns,s al
ance and proscription-but they have no centra
no unity Of purpose. In nearly ali Of the iarEs
Southern ports. the longshoremen have sucf
organizations. those at Galveston and New Ut
in other occupations must necessarily follow 81
a natural result Of the lowering movement. Ir
good will and sympathy of the employing class
who know by long experience that they arc. a
| competent as WOrkoTb. ana Iar ulOEc Crust"Ortny
and given less to ~captious and unusual de
mands than white laborers.
The idea. which is persistently insisted upon
that the Southern white laborer 10 a superior
creature. superior to the black laborer In an,
other than the doubtful matter, of epidemic
veneering, Is extremely misleading and non
sensical. The average Southern white labore
differs in nothing from the average Southern
black laborer excepting that he 10 white; and 1
has been demonstrated to the satisfaction Q
employers that white men are incapable OF tn.
physical exertion that black men are in the eli
mate of the Southern States.
The real struggle of the Afro-American as
man and q citizen has begun in dead earnest II
the very centres where he is strongest numeri
cally and in every other, way. The conspirac!
of the white laborer of the South against his In
herent and constitutional right to alife, .Ibert!
and the pursuit of happiness win test his man
hood at every point. and the contest will b
that It's importance merits. In how far sucl
conspiracies as Mr.. lowering proposes wilfeom
in conflict with the Federal Constitution it vii
be time to ascertain when his conspiracy ha
been thoroughly Matched.
Meanwhile the Afro-American race shoul
pray TO be delivered from the wise mon of thei
own race, in and out of the Negro Academy
who should know the limitations and the need
Of their race. but who think. and preach 1t. tina
/ .. --N -AA1 80 90 tn N mann