The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-02
HIRES WHITE LABOR
BIG MONTGOMERY FACTORY DIs- BUSTED WITH NEGRO wORExMEN.
Chemical Company Imports seventy-nve Europeans and More are to Comes-- Manager Ixlar Talks of
 Experiment..

Nearly seventy-fiye white foreigners are now being employed in the mafiu- | featuring department of the Virginia- Carolina Chemical Company at its plant
 in North Montgomery.
 The employment of these white for eigners was largely of an experimental nature, and was aimed at the incubus
 of negro labor which for so long time has been a bugbear for Southern man. ufacturers.
 Several weeks ago s. O. Izlar, man. ager of the manufacturing department of the Montgomery branch of the 5ig fertilizer manufacturing company, de- cided that he was tired and disgusted
 with the shiftlessness of the negro la- borers he employed. Years of expeli- ence in their employment had taught him the lesson that the negro is en- tirely shiftiess and unreliable. Scores of them he hired. For two or throe days their work would be good. By that time they had accumulated a few
 dollars and would loaf about the streets until these dollars were spent. | No dependence could be put in them. One day hundreds would show up for work; the next day there would be a bare handful.
 l Mir. Islar decided to make an experi- ment. He consulted with immigration l bureaus and decided to bring European | immigrants to work in his Montgomery | factory. The first shipment of immi- grants arrived in Montgomery several days ago. They numbered forty five. and the nationalities included the hard working Swede, the taciturn German, and the willing Pole. Last night thirty | Italians were brought to Montgomery | from the cane fields of Louisiana, and | Mir Izlar expects another shipment of seventy-five Italians in few days. Mir Izlar believes that he has solved the labor problem. In an interview
 yesterday he said he had practically
 decided to quit employing negro labor entirely.
 They have fallen down on us so much at crucial times" he said. They have proved altogether so unreliable and shiftiess that if can get white men I am going to have them. When the first shipment of Euro- peans arrived, their work was not quite so rapid as the negro's, but learn from my superintendent that they are rapid ly learning our methods and we have the great advantage of knowing that we are going to have an ample force sounds. The men are quiet and orderly,
 obedient and willing to learn. I am delighted with my experiment as far as it has gone.
 "of course. we are still employing a number of negroes, A hundred more or less of the black men are working 1 in our factory. As far as I possibly can, however. am separating the white men from the negroes, and there has been absolutely no unpleasantne be- | tween the races. ''The white men are working at diff ferent machines from the negroes, and | there is no chance of contact, but ! nevertheless, I am going to endeavor to have all laborers at the factory of l Caucasian blood. Our experiment has proved so successful that the Tennes- see Fertilizer Company has employed over thirty Italians, and understand ! that they are entirely satisfied with ! their labor"