The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-03-22
RACE STRUGGLE
YET TO COME. !"
Industrial Subcommittee Hears Two
Witnesses At Charlotte.
VIEWS OF AN EDUCATOR
DR.. Winston Talks OF the Race
Problem and Needs o. Negro.

Two prominent witnesses appeared
before the subcommittee of the Nat
ional Industrial commission at Char
lotte, N. c., and gave interesting tes-
timony.
State Labor Commissioner Lacy tes'
tilted regarding labor conditions in the
state, while DR.. George T. Winston,
president OF the North Carolina COL
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic arts.
and one of the foremost educators OF
the south, gave interesting facts coa-
cerning ths race problem in the south,
saying the real race struggle is yet to
come.
Commissioner Lacy testified that
there were about 80, 757 employees in
the 215 Gotten mills in North Carolina,
divided as follows: Fourteen thousand
six hundred and thirty-eight men; 15,-
811 women; 1,679 girls and 1899 boys.
His opinion was that II or l8 per
cent of the adults could not read, and
about 80 per cent of the children are
illiterate. As to wages, the lrbor
commissioner stated that skilled men
were paid from 81 to $3.50, unskllled
so cents to 81; skilled women Is cents
to $3.50, unskllled 80 cents to Is
cents; children averaged about 30
cents per day.
Questioned regarding the subject OF
compulsory arbitration between en-
ployes, the commissioner said that
this was impracticable, because it
would be impossible to force an en-
ploye to work against his will on &C.
count of the fourteenth amendment to
the United States constitution, and
therefore such law could not bind
the parties involved. Mr.. Lacy said
he favored compulsory education.
President Winston informed the
committee that the greatest need of
the south was N q universal educa-
tion, compulsory if necessary; ~ in
dustrial education in the public schools
and continued in technical colleges.
He considers education q national as
we'll as state duty, and favors a ma
tional university at Washington.
In regard to the Negro DR.. Winston
said that the real race conflict in the
south is not political nor social, but
industrial.
The most pitiful and in some places
the most cruel chapter in American
history was the attempt to set up the
emancipated negro slave as-the politi-
cal antagonist of his Anglo-Saxon mas
ter. This attempt had almost entirely
alienated the two races in the south.
The greatest blessing that could fall
to the negro's lot nov would he the
restoration of the old-time kindly re-
lations with the white people. These
relations can be restored by the COM
plete elimination of the race from
southern politics.
THE real race struggle, said DIR.
Winston, "bas not begun yet. 1t will
come with bitter intensity when the
southern white laborer is arrayed
against the southern negro laborer in
a struggle for employment; when the
white mill operatives who strike for
higher wages are replaced by negroes.
We shall then see in the socth what
recently occurred in Pana, ILL.,. but
with more intensity. Unless the ne
gro speedily abandons his political
and social equality dreams and devotes
himself to industrial training and man
ual labor, his fate is sealed. There is
now a place for him in southern in
dustrial life, and unless he fills that
place speedily, there will be no place
:or him, except as the veriest drudge"
DIR. Winston said Booker T. Wash
ington shows a fine appreciation OF
the real needs of ihe negro IN the
south. Such schools as his should be
established in every part of the south,
and should be aided by the national
government.
As to political rights, President
Winston said the negro will be treat
ed in the south for many years pretty
much as the Chiuaman is treated in
California; the Indian il tho north
west; the Hawaiian in Hawaii; the
Filipinos in the Philippines; the
Porto Ricans in Porto Rico: the Alas
kans in Alaska, and othe: citizens of
less fashionable colo1 in various Sec
tions of our possessions.