The Denver star., 1916-11-25
NEGROES MOVING NORTH
Make Raid On Savannah Union Depot.

Make Raid On Savannah Union Depot.
The Neeros industrial opportunity never brighter
this country began work himself
for his he did in the days. The country
especially the South beRipnngto acknowledge pract
cal his value factor in the labor and industrial fields
of the nation From the South where attempts made
substitute his labor with white foreign labor the
and evidence of its preference for
him. and in these days. when Europe political
ton and foreign labor only the South but all
parts of the swinging back him. The South
during the last had been pretending that wanted
rid of the Negrothat he shifless and unreliable
laborer bu. when the Negro decided take the South
its word and began other quarters there
from section of the South howl of protest. follow
led by the strenuous efforts his exodus The
truth is that Negro labor under conditions favorable
under which the whites operate just reliable
the best class of white labor and nntey reliable than
that of transient foreigners Among the things which have
made the Negro in the South restless have been the bad
which he continually receiving the hands of
the South The South knows there class of peo-
pie in the body polite that yAluabe ap
Negro If the South will treaFthe Negro justly and hu-
namely will have trouble exodus but if it does
not neither laws vigilance Omittees will be able
restrain their departure mor favorable
more Commonwealth. A,-es..A.
Birmingham, Aa..-The migr alton of coored people
from Alabama to Northern and Western given
momentum by the activities of the boil weev
mer floods in the district of the The pro-
little dsheaens growers
ly washed away many crops
The Birmingham mining district asked take care
many OF the stricken coored
black belt ltwas about this time that the Pennsylvania
and Erie railroads urged recruiting aborers
georgia and Florida The labor agents turned Alabama
at the psychological and did lively business for
several months with the result that than have
migrated to the North, East and West from the state
County county has been almost deserted by
people for the coal fields of West Virginia Ohio Kentucky
and Indiana and the industrial of New York.
New Jersey. Michigan and Illinois,
mild protest entered by local papers, but the big
hoWl did not until the recruiting began
trained coal dggers the mining districts Mine
operators in the vicinity of Birmingham employ
most of whom receive ranging from $50
a month.
Dr. Ulysses Grant Mason leading colored physician of
Birmingham talked with the correspondent about the mi
grafton of lolored men.
North and West at INCREASED wage said DR. Mason
siders promotion Many coored people who left Geo
rga and Alabama went to Connecticut work in the obac
fields take the place of foreigners who returned
Europe to enlist for the native white who quit
the farms to go into munton plants For several
Connecticut tobacco have been experimenting with
colored labor and have found 1T very satisfactory.
The Northern and Western employer has ever up to
this the coored of the South
show his ability work He has preferred the foreign
who brought tor busy and then
mitted go back in dull times.
number Of colored have left the because of fear Of
ynchng
When in Detroit recently said Davis Georgia
carpenters maknRoo and 70 cents hour think the
of the mgration which growing rapidly
and WILL by the middle Of April be exodus.
ed men have awess of Georgia because of
fear Of being mobbed charged with Two women