The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-29
A Call and an Answer.

Call and an Answer.
Inc president OF large manufacture
ing plant DIT ChlcaSo Heights, Illinois,
having reaa III Inc Chicago Tribune
an interview with the editor Of The
CONSTITUTION, reproduced elsewhere in
tfls issue concerning negro labor in
tie SOUTH writes US as follows
tervie a ' IN The " neen reading your In
we are very anxious to set some colored
u no,p , l,oi, he he sI thought probably
to get some of this heint: theref s take
the ilperty o,t OF WHqng. From your state
Understand the Iind a, see you cIe al,y
want. ~
a, we nay, nave been n. unable to secure suffi-
to iis fuI ranacit,, M uI 10 III , our p'al'
cure about forty colored persons TO work
in the factory. which would be about the
S'rne "o.h ,ncI 90 IN your town.
we WIZ 10 FRANK 10 say to our cor
respondent that, having something
more than mere monetary regard for
the security OF our colored people. we
would hesitate long before advising
them to go to the nortb fo,. worl, If
tho n,osan+ ti,ro ~ % ~
-'0 i''01' - ~
'''O0' 1's'ii'' u i'es' yes III tnat sectlon
are SO ahtagohlstIc and dangerous to
colored men having profitable skill in
the trades that it would. in our opin-
ion. be the worst advice we could give
them ehou1d wa nroo +1,o,, 40 Give
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enllchihS WORN III tHe horln'
ne negroes Oh ms sec non are wei
enough educated and read current
news sufficiently to be well aware of
how col0red laborers are treated in
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and
many points OF bloody memories i'll
illinois. Their travelling bishops,
teachers and returned friends have
tod them how only the most mehlal
employments are open to them ID the
north, how they are refused atfiliation
with labor unions, and their very pres
ence in many northern Industrial
towns proyokes strikes, assaults ana
murders by the white laborers.
They have read, also, now in such
cases the governors OF northern states
have refused them protection and
when the militia was ordered out to
Quell riots the white soldiers have
taken sides with and encouraged the
white strikers and negrO-killers. Wit
ness Pana and Verdun in Illinois and
Connellsyille in Pennsylvania. And
remember also that there are many
towns in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
where a negro is not permitted to i've,
or even to get off a train at their town
railway stations.
A month ago ex-Congressman Bar
rows, of Massachusetts, told large
congregation Of negroes in this city
that their chances of labor, home
building and prosperity are greater
and safer in the south than in the
north. Colonel Mcclure, in Philadel-
nhia but recently spoke in caustic de
nnnciation of the fact that the people
OF that CITY Of Br0'herly Love, who
are ever so anxious to regulate the at
fairs of the negro in the south, yet
refuse to give encourq6f nent support
and defense to the labor rights Of the
large negro population Of their own
city
With our knowledge Of how com
monty these acts of hostility to the
negro-not the criminal and idle ne
gro-but the man with brain, Drawn
and skill who is a good craftsman and
willing to work for honest dollars
viii which to buy the living Of his
family we cannot conscientiously tell
anv colored man that it IS either safe
or nroftable for him to transfer his
Iahd, frono tbo south ia the north.
Here he is ut home among people