The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-03-14
Negroes Progress In 1911

r From time to time during the
year the census bureau has issued
interesting information concerning
the Negro.
The Negro population in the U.
is. In 1910. was 9,S28,294. OF this
number $4,000, or 89.1 per cent.
|Af the Negro population live in the
|South. The census reports show that
Negroes are not going to the cities
as rapidly as the whites are. The
white population of cities during the
tast ten years increased 46.6 per
teent. and the Negro population 3O.5
per cent The most interesting thing
that the census reported during the
tYear concerning the!Negroe was that
ESegroes are becoming farmers at
Emore than twice the rate Of the
fwhites. From 1900 to 1910 the num-
Eber Of white farmers in the country
Increased 8 per cent. and the number
t0f Negro farmers 10 per cent. In
t19o0 there fere 767.764 colored far
kmefs. In 1910 there were 917,465
tsuch farmers.
!, The farm labor in the South has
occupied a considerable amount of
tattention during the year, particu-
dlarly when the census report show
Fed that in many parts of the black
belt in the South the population was
decreasing. 1t was suggested that
the large plantations be cut up and
,Esold in small tracts to farmers 1t
was also suggested that emigrants
lbe secured from the North and from
I Europe. DR.. Booker +. Washington
lealled attention to the Importance Of
landlords and others providing good
comfortable homes for their tenants
\ haVing good /~schoolhouses, good
churches and making life In the rur-
al districts safe.
Negroes during the year made
gains in the field Of organized labor
rat the 1910 annual meeting Of the
| National Council Of the American
Federation Of Labor resolution was
Unanimously passed inviting Negro
les and all other races into the labor
federation. The officers of the feder-
latiOn were instructed~to take meas
lures to see that Negro workmen, as
.Ewe1l as workmen of other races were
brought into the unions. Following
iomt this policy, steps have been taken
| to unionize the Negroes working in
the Pittsburg district. Al New Or
leans in October the Negro Long
.Eshorem'en we're admitted to the In
International Lone shoremen's Union
| Among the 1000 conductors that
frecently attended the annual meet.
ling of the National Railway Con
duetors of America at Jacksonville,
lFla., there we're four Negroes Al
i the eighteenth biennial session Of the
! National Association of Letter Car
;Eriers, which met at Rochester, n
TX, fifteen Negro delegates were also
lpresent.
NEGRO sECRfST SOCIETIES
( Financially Negro secret societies
lappear to be very prosperous. The
masonic Grand Lodge Of Alabama al
Its annual meetings reported $75,-
949.93 had been received during the
lyear. The cOlored Odd Fellows Of
Louisiana paid $4,000 for three
tstory brick building in New Orleans
1.-THE United Brothers Of Friendship
erected a $4,000 building at Louis
Iville, KY. This order in Texas collect
Fed during the year SGT, 459. Fifty
1.-two thousand three hundred and for
Ity-seven dollars of this amount went
to the widows and orphans fund. In
no state do the secret societies han
| die more money than they do in
MISSISSIPPI. At the annual meeting