Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-08-21

ployers' Association, that with the year
ending November Is, 1917, they had placed
about 10000 Negro workers.
Questionnaires sent to Ill firms in New
York City employing more than 500 per.
sons showed that more than per cent
of the larger industrial firms make use of
Negro workers. Many more showed ia.
vorable attitude.
The United Dressed Beef Company has
recently introduced colored workers and
when questioned replied that thei resrvices
were absolutely 49, K"
The American Druggist Syndicate of Long
Island City affirms that the work, and also
the behavior, of Negro workers is very good.
The New York Times, as we'll as the
New York World, are entirely satisfied with
their colored employees. The former stat.
ing in answer to our questions that me
groes are good workers and should be
schooled for all kinds Of work.
The situation and attitude is we'll summed
up by the Washburn Wire Company, Inc,
who write: 'The Negro workers in our
factories are very satisfactory and treated
in every way the same as every other en-
pIoye of our company. They are accorded
the same privileges as other employees, given
the same opportunities for advancement,
and we think we can safely say that very
friendly feeling exists between these Ne
grOes and other workers.
Statistics and reports from every side
show that the coored worker has more
than made good. He has disproved false
hood about his shftlessness and has given
the lie to false accusation concerning his
ability.
What is his future in this new field of
activity, is question that we may be
asked.
Our age is not favorable to prophecy.
New inventions, imml grafton, war or what
not may change the situation over ight
Judging, however, from past performances
and basiny our conclusions on reasonable
probabilities, we can safely phophesy an
industrial future for the Negro.
Experience has shown that Negroes can
produce as much in a given time and are as
faithful and cheerful on the job as any
class of workers.
One autoombile plant in Detroit employ.
ing nearly 10000 colored persons, affirms
that fifty Negroes produced nearly 35 per
cent more than seventy persons Of various
natonaities before the former was taken
on the job. Negroes are as capable in the
shipbuildng industry as any class of work
ers and a Negro riviter now holds the worlds
championship for this kind of work
The dusty coal fields and the noisy steel
plants, by no means impairs his ability. The
writer on investigating many Of the steel
industries in Central Ohio and Western
Pennsylvania was astonshed at seeing Ne
groes heretofore unaccustomed to noisy,
unsteady, and even hazardous industries
moving swiftly without noticing anything
but their immediate tasks. The Negro is
demonstrating to the world his capabilities
and proving conclusively his worth. With
the continued migration which shows no
signs Of stopping and with the increased OPP
portunities which firms are giving to the
colore0 worker, together with the awaken.
inc liberality of the Unions, the Negro is
sure to become a greater factor in industry.
Again. there is an undercurrent of race
consciousness combined with the spirit of
ambition which exempifes itself in efforts
to seize every possible industrial opportunity
with an interchangeable determination.