The age-herald., 1901-08-10
TELLS NEGROES
 TO REMAIN HERE Advised Not to Take Strikers
 Places RACE LEADERS AROUSED Editor of "Hot Shots" Gives True Facts About Efforts of Labor Agents
 To Get Them To
 Go North.
RACE LEADERS AROUSED

Leading colored men of the district condemn the efforts of Northern indus- tries to entice members of their race away from this district to fill the places of strikers.
 The Rev. William McGill has lead ing editorial on the subject in his pa per, "Hot Shots,' this week. It Is head ed: Let the Colored Man Take Warm ing" and is as follows:
 Tt is announced in the daily press that labor agents in this district have been communicated with in reference to the gathering of a large number of colored laborers in this section for the purpose of shipping them to districts in the North and West where there are iron and steel works. The negroes are simply to be carried into districts where there are strikes Hot Shots desires to caution the negro laborers in this section that 1t will be very unwise for them to set out upon such trip and that if they do listen to the fairy tales that will be told them by the labor agents they. will be loaded on to railroad cars and carried into districts where they are liable to be slaughtered like so many cattle.
 experience Is Enough.
 "Former experience should teach the negroes of this district that 1t Is not a very safe thing for them to do in follow Ing labor agents and recently 1t has been demonstrated that the reception that will be given the Southern negro laborers by the Northern and Western white labor CTS will be anything but sincere and harmonious. The story will be told ne- groes In this section that those who went to Chicago a few weeks since and re- mained there are now working and are earning s2 per day.
 ''The facts are that a few negroes did remain in that section and they are hav- ing a hard time of 1t, not even securing suitable places in which to live. As to salary 1t Is doubtful if they are getting all that was promised them and 1t Is pos sible that they will have to pay trans portation for several weeks to come.
 Pana Incident Recalled.
 How many remember the treatment Alabaqna negroes received when they went into the Pana, H., district to take the places of striking coal miners a few years ago? The trains on which they were being carried into the district named were fired into and more than one unfortunate received wounds which he has felt ever since or which caused death. Then there were a number of ne- groes to be carried into the Indian Ter ritory and Kansas to work in the mines where there was a strike on and their treatment was horrible.
 Now, here is another scheme of the same sort. The statement that the ne- groes are to be carried to the North and West to be given position In which they can earn from g to B a day is a gilded promise. These negroes are likely to get a nice position for while, but the chances are very probable that as soon as a settlement can be effected with the. old men, who are experienced and accom- plished, the negro will be showed out and being far away from home will be in Q deplorable condition.
 Natural Home In South.
 Hot Shots has stated before that the natural home of the negro is in the South. There is no room nor liberty for him in the North, the sweet talk heard from that section notwithstanding. The negro laborers are more contented South than North.
 Therefore this paper desires to warn the negroes at work in this district against the talkative labor agent, who with oily tongue and seemingly strong argument, will try to convince the la- borers that their best interests are in the North. Run them away. Don't let them disturb yen, Tell them to go else where and do nN allow them to offer fiattery when yoh iow that the agents get a per capita for @svery negro sent away. just like so much cattle. Be men. Remain at your work and do not chase rainbows."