The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-08-21
THE HIGH COST OF BEING A NEGRO

THE HIGH COST BEING A NEGRO
THE WHOLE WORLD IS UP in arms to combat the high
cost OIL living 0 course they have started wrong
obtained will be only temporary boarded food in the
country would feed days Everybody especially the
aoorng classes affected by the high living No one
sesed OF ordinary intelligence escape obvious
at taking millions OF men from productive they were
assets and engaging them occupations making them
aDes that the citizens who joint stockholders the BODY
polite would suffer the inevitable losses.
The negro has been conspicuous figure in this organized
camor 1t naturally creates question the analytical mind be-
cause the reduction OF the high cost of living of
Portance to the welfare of the as the sale of thrift
stamps and liberty bonds No will deny that people,
as group did their share making success Whv the
negro not so conspcuousy sandwed international army
that charging the profteers reduce the high lvng
THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE. HE IS TOO BUSILY EN-
Gagged IN REDUCING THE HIGH COST OF BEING Al
NEGRO.
The white workers who the most part are members Of we'll
organized labor unions have pockets of capital
suent wage increases greatly offset the diminished purchasing
power of the dollar Wages expense and it is useless
when the expense big increased that they will
increase the price OF their commodity service AND THE NEGRO
IS PRINCIPALLY THE GOAT JUST BECAUSE He IS A
NEGRO The anpy of union labor toward oored coupled
with the threatening big stick capitalists holds over his head
the thrown between the frying pan and the fire
We are not condemning the white workers for striking They
was our pal and We miss him just here in the p
On peter THE REGENT
STREET CAR STRIKE OUT OF WHICH THE EMPLOYEES
HAVE GOTTEN FROM 20 TO 90 PER CENT RAISE, THE
NEGRO IS FORCED TO PAY IN EXCESS FARES OVER S.
100000 PER YEAR WITHOUT GETTING BACK A PENNY IN
SALARIES. HE IS NOT A MOTORMAN, CONDUCTOR OR
INSPECTOR, BECAUSE HE IS A NEGRO
In the textile industries in New England salaries have increased
90 per while the salaries of Negroes who make their jobs
possibility only Is per White doing the
work getting twice the amount in salaries The articles
featured upon the market and the negroas the
price them the whites who getting better
IN CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY, NEW YORK AND DE
TROIT WHERE NEGROES ARE WORKING, GETTING THE
SAME SALARIES AS THE WHITES THEY HAVE TO PAY
TWICE THE RENT, AND IN NIGHBORIfOOD CLOTHING
AND GROCERY STORES RECENT INVESTIGATIONS
SHOW THAT FOR THE SAME GRADE OF GOODS THE
NEGRO HAS TO PAY, BESIDES THE RAISE THAT IS SUP
POSED TO BE JUSTIFIED BY THE GENERAL CHANGE IN
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, AN ADDITIONAL COLOR TAX
- SOMETIMES AS HIGH AS 50 PER CENT; THUS HIS NET
THE WHITE WORKERS. BY PERVERTED SOCIAL CON
VENTION BOMBS AND RIOTS, HE IS FORCED INTO
CERTAIN TERRITORY WHERE TIE IS BLACKJACKED OUT
OF HIS EARNINGS
spread by shemg criminal and low white real estate
for their personal gain In such districts white business men
have with if they did discharge ooed
hundred coored people have been thrown out OF
groes sequence the whole has additional
political world which great overaps the industrial
economic the 1t costs him to be
Ward alone where he constitutes IS cent OF the
majority of the population gets per the patronage
including service Therefore he robbed of the difference
between the Is and IS.
If all of the data relative to the additional expense and disad
vantaees singular besides the general dsadvan
tage all have anything but density could
easily perceive why high of living it affects the general
public paes nsigncance comparison with the high cost oil
being negro IN FACT THE COLORED MAN HAS SO MUCH
: TOLERANCE AND ENDURANCE ABOVE THAT OF THE
: OTHER GROUPS, THERE ARE VERY SERIOUS DOUBTS IF
3 HE WOULD KICK AT ALL IF HE WAS ONLY AFFECTED
AS THE REMAINDER OF THE POPULATION The high cost