The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
WHITE LABOR AND BLACK.
~-r PHASE OF THE ISDUsrFIAL
We" EN- IN THE SOUTH.

.., so,,heru Ceuredsraey 20 Labsr
1se ~. proposltiou 70 mar NeGrs Wsrh.
" 49,, or the skilled Traaes-Heea OF
"a. schools fer Ne~Groes-Hhe outieeH.
uu.orr Ala, Feb. 1o.-Most Of the work
a-opnds OF the Tuskegee Institute Is
On - student labor. Thirty-slx skilled trades
u oH. here. the products OF which are read
w 800 NJ ot a profit to the school. For
nuN"r, tho stuaents make all tho bricks and
-os, of the lumber consumed in the build
-" ...des-o f Tuskcgee. and q large proportion
- ~. farm wagons and harness uscd py tine
~-nors Of Macon county are made by the stu
-. There are forty-eiCht buildinRs OF all
sem .i,es on the institute grounds, some Of
IL. .nd son,e Of brick, but they all represent
In,S.t lobor from tho making Of the bricks
", Icing Of the lumber to the construction
~ hr,ldine after designs made in the chief
s,ohi,cct's department. There Is always n
..ns,nu NJ some sort in course Of construction.
Irs, now the foundations are being laid for the
80, school building, which win cover moro
nan an acre OF ground.
A'fcv DAYS ago the Negro American Acad-
NV met in the city OF Washington, and It's
,..,ncd and aged President. the Rev. Alexander
Crumnell, D. D., assured tho deie-
- mai. the negro did not need to go to q
-,apunl framing SCubOi, 90 nv HeN 49,
.nr-snt,ceship OF $50 years in the school OF Ia
80 n A trade learned by q man was Of any
s.i,o N his son, who had not learned it-and
.h., ,nfcrentislly, what the negro needed most
-. education OF the head, the so-called higher
.s,o.tion. While the Negro Academy was
Unwilling with the most serious and complicat-
:, nbase OF the race problem. the Federation Of
Y,hor uos wrangling over a statement made
- Nv Rocker T. Washington that American
E ,-,aes nnionism was antagonist!c to the negro as
. Iohorer. and was having a lot OF trouble in
adopting a resolution declaring that the Fed
.r,,ion at least was not: and the textile opera
,;vc, NJ Atlanta, who were on strike, wcrc pro-
earring with al the lung power and vehe-
,,.rce nj their command, against the employ
nent NJ nerroes.to take their places, the spokes-
n,,of the white strikers taking the position
that II would be degrading to them to have to
,ork with black men and women or in compe-
tition with them, and appealing to the race
1--we and humanity Of the mill ownerssto ave
them from such degradation!
Not a great. while ago some..rush work was
beinr done on a building on the Institute
grounds here. and 1t was found that in order'to
eomplete the work in a given time it would be
necessary to employ additional tin roofers
q -. a.. .r..ida rpubar Of man uere or.
uo" NN".sa. VIZ, tho, 90. hor.
ucreu LIUH montgomery ~ sASS ~ ASS
they refused to work with the black student
81, -ooters stating that they had no objection
TN lool't'' .a-sisS. ,ha - - ,ha,.
to doing SO, but II was against the rules OF their
Labor union, They lost q day and their pas
80. money from and 70 Montgomery II was
sate uoNe' -" - sI..t,..u -.
on evidence iKetthis'which Is ootaihaoie al over
the South, that Mr.. Washington based the opin-
g. - ,rhicb rho Federation NJ Labor took ex.
scn,ion at its nashville meeting. Such evi.
dence Is accessible to and should be known
Nv mr. Crummell and the other members
Of the Negro Academy. When the reputed
wise men of q race are so mistaken, what
can he tbouaht or expected of the unthink-
r. - -. -..,.,
tpg massesf FOR the most part these masses
have to do their own thinking. and the success
tnes MAKE u . W. ,en III
Stances Us their. wise men 100 otteh hFe Win
their heads in the clouds. as in the case of such
men of education and experience as Or. Crum-
% ~ -,
neil and some otners OF the coueBlans In ana
out Of the Negro Academy.
Tbs exbaustivc article nv Jobn Stevens Dur.
-, - ,.NH - IL. =.
man, oni'ed states minister 10 haSti, IN
Iabor Unions and tho Neoro, !. furnishes sutf.
=.
,eeht' Information upon lhe shaLouesnoh OF
the exclusion Of the negro from the bread-win-
ming occunations and the disastrous efFects IL
is beginning 10 have on the ability OF the Afro
American race to sustain itself "out OF the
swF "a e q. ls fa Wsy the IL m d9es % %S;ch IL has shows Ssen
made in The mas, ouarter Of q centnry in t,iiin1
he snuttern States WITH schools Of binher
eTpcation for rho A. mer;can Tontb re the
almost utter exclusion of trades schools. with
Inc result thar the skilled trndesmen of the
Arc, American race have almost entirely dis.
appsare,i from a Held in which thev were onco
supreme. And ,hen RI. annIiratio, Of ateam
and electric power and the marveIions inyen.
tors wnich have disnIaced mere hand work
in most industries cyan in ngricnitnre and
the absndonment ~ The I'D ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NJ a.
ten az tho behest Of the trades nnions have
shut up the avenues m the moste~in1 Of the
skilled trades eyrcnt tbroIcb the n,cJinn5 Of
trr.i, schooi- SncS sohnois ~ ,,lito haua ore
found in all ,raJa canIros anJ baye had n
0tarLlinr growth in tho naSt fer yoars ~
The SOUTH has heen T6ra bark,vSr in tbis M
In al other nbaseS ~ adncstioo ,hnn ,ha North,
en and Wasfern Ststas Such snhonTs ~ =
positive necessary IN The blact nov ~ the south
II they arc IN receive srch $780, IA, a a Lii n,
them for usefnl and bonorahic citi1snshin To
nav thar snch inSrstrgap sapn as .ha !, y
ton Tnske~ea ralhonn 30, SGn Isqts a. tnS . aIs
not needed and thai hlncr bovs DO no, need to
attend Them IL m confess ;ano y n " - az indns.
trial conditions in the SenIhern atatas ~ he
q-gent neejs n1 tha i ne dnstrtaf 49, Sa.u vi az
Afro American nonnia tion an a. % mn no.
nouncod aud nrowjpr antn nn % W thn ~ its
iaboring nonnIati"n =, a.hh.oakSSnsmh oi tne ME-
laborins nnnmiaifon VI 'uu rousH y sno naoa
priIs a crimc nhan - man 81 ienoranI ~
thoritativeIv tbat 49, ~ ur.o,eet' az ptInnlou, =" u
Thar The sitmat tnay "ork innntte lnJIry, NJ.
"a 10 u oNttuTuWH ny IlT.