The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-01-06
PROMOTING WELFARE WORK.
National Leagues Efforts to Facilitate
Migration Of Our Race.
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By T. ARNOLD HILL

By T. ARNOLD HILL.
New York.-Alive to the different
phases of the much discussed and
many sided "Negro migration" the
National League on Urban Conditions
Among Negroes is awake to the need
Of intensive effort for the betterment
Of the working and living conditions
Of the colOred people who are coming
from the south to the Industrial GEN.
ters in other sections of the country.
Already slight infractions of the law.
lack Of recreational facilities, improp-
er housing and disregard for the COM
fort, freedom and wages of the work.
ers have been reported from two or
three labor sections.
In addition to adjusting the difficult
ties of numbers Of the race who have
migrated to New York from the south
and the supplying Of several indus
tries in the north with labor, the Ur-
ban league is sending Eugene X. Jones,
its executive secretary, to cities where
the presence Of large numbers of col
ored people makes imperative the
need for organized constructive wei
fare work.
Mr.. Jones made his first stop in Har-
risburg, Pa, where, largely because Of
the iron industry in the adjoining
town Of Steelton, serious labor prob
lens are going to be met by group
Of citizens who have under considera-
tion definite plans to handle the situa-
ton. In its efforts to arrange ade-
quate housing, sufficient wages. salts
factory hours, wholesome recreation,
safe and just municipal protection and
proper respect for law and the rights
Of others on the part Of the Negroes
themselves the Urban league will give
the advantage Of its own experience
In meeting these issues in the various
cities where its organizations are at
work.
In Pittsburgh, where an affiliated
movement of the league was formed
last winter, the various problems aris-
ing in this large iron manufacturing
city will have careful supervision and
systematic handling by the branch Or
ganization. Pittsburgh is accustomed
to large laboring population, and the
same problems will be more easily met
and solved than in other cities which
are being affected by the movement of
labor.
Mr.. Jones will also visit Elyria, O.,
which has been one Of the centers for
Negro labor since the general exodus
began. Another phase Of the leagues
activities in this same direction is the
sending to colored editors all over the
country letter of general information
calling attention to the fact that good
positions are being secured by the eff
cient and energetic members of the
race when they have come north to fill
a definite job and are willing to give
an honest days toll.
The communication contains also a
warning against the wholesale migra.
ton of irresponsible Negroes, who soon
lose their places, become menace to
the neighborhoods and thereby humili-
ate and retard the race in communities
where white people have hitherto con-
sidered Negroes undesirable.
Before returning to the city Mr..
Jones will stop in Cleveland and Chi
cago. Both Of these cities have made
requests for the league to start per-
manent organizations, fully equipped
to work along all lines of betterment
work.