The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-16

anu "uhto iuiu 50 Dduly Inat lt ism
going to let him get away if 1t can help
it. Listen:
"Americus, Ga, police and sheriff's
office have thrown out a dragnet for
the agents who have been leading Ne
groes out of the country with promises
of work in Connecticut" special dis
patch to the Atlanta Constitution reads.
Several industries have been par
alyzed by the Negroes leaving their
work"
Then there is the old boyle of alien
Immigration. Listen again, this time
10 the Washington Post:
There is Il growing need for COM
mon labor" which may become $50
acute as to cripple industry" and which
is due partly to prosperity and partly
to the impairment of immigration"
The same paper summarizes the sit
uation as follows:
mot long ago agents acting in be-
half of the Russian government trans
ported from Norfolk, Va, complete
force of shipbuilders, including fore
men, craftsmen, mechanics and ordi-
haA AaDOACAos hC lOECe
was removed In body to Russia. so
that the Russian government might
have better facilities for shipbuilding.
'The need for labor, both for agri-
cultural and industrial development, is
as great in the South as In the East.
Recently two thousand Negro laborers
left Savannah, Ca, to work on the
viz nio Lob
were taken from n point four miles
out of Savannah because the local
council had passed an ordinance requir-
ing n $1,000 license fee for any agent
sending laborers out of the state.
''Ali of the factories in the South are
taking precautions against draining of
their labor resources. Their situation
is not different from that which pre-
walls In the East. Some months ago
one of the large motor car compa-
MES in the East had a strife and with
in "a hours agents of the large mu-
milton companies were on the field
inducing the strikers to accept employ
ment in the munition plants"
But suppose we follow the Negroes
Courant tell about 1t:
"One way in which the labor short
age that has been felt in the North dur
ing the present period of intense in
dustrial prosperity has been met is by
the importation of Negro laborers frOIn
the South. The tobacco plantations In
the immediate vicinity Of Hartford
have made particular use Of this ex-
pedient.
Marcus L. Floyd, general manager
of the Connecticut Tobacco corpora
ton, now has 145 Negroes ut work, and
expects soon to have 200 working on
the GO acres that are being cultivated
under cloth by the corporation.
"On the Griffin Neuberger plantation
at Grifiiths. Conn.,, there are now 81
Negro workers, and here will be 13O
before the season is over.
''These Negro workers are paid 81
a day and housed free"
And here is the explanation:
1.-THE cause of the labor shortage In
this section, according to Mr.. Floyd, is
that the high wages offered by NUM-
tion factories to unskilled labOrers
drew most of them into the work. This
with the fact that immigration has al
most ceased"
So the war, which brought the indus
trial prosperity and also cut off the i'm
migration upon which American en-
ployers so long have depended, is to be
both praised and blamed. And in the
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The South Texas Colored Mission,
ary Baptist association convened in its
twenty-third annual session at Hous.
ton, Tex. Moderator Rev. A. L. Cor
don called the association to order
The opening service of the prayer was
conducted by Rev. b. j. Preacher OF