The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-03-12
HOME MISSIONS COUNCIL SCORES
CARVEY MOVEMENT in RECENT RE-
PORT.
Says There is Great
Need For Spiritual Di.
reCtiOn That Race Con-
SciOuSnesS Be Directed
Into Right Channels in
Relation to Races.

New York, N. Y, March 1O.-The
Home Missions Council, I56 Fifth
Avenue. New York. has Just issued
sixteen-page, report on inter- racial
conditions in Chicago made under the
Industrial relations survey OF the In
ter-church movement.
The conditions in Chicago are n
sample of similar ones In many other
Northern cities with some variations
due to size of the white and Negro
populations, the character of the prin-
cipal industries, etc. The ground
work OF the problems is the same.
That the tendency to violence indi-
Gated in this report is present else
where, recent outbreaks in other
places show. The problems of Me-
groes In other cities to get houses and
neighborhoods in which to live is not
altogether unlike what is here set
forth briefly for Chicago. The ques-
uons of police protection for securi-
~ of homes and persons, of cost of
living In relation to income and of
Sdifferences in wages of white and
black are not confined to the Windy
city. The matter Of comparative lab
or turnover. of comparative skill and
other Items of efficiency are of con-
sequence to workers and emplC s'ors
n every place in the North where
Negroes have entered into Industry
In short the items which are sketch
ed here for Chicago are of serious
concern for communities all over the
North.
The work of Marcus Garvey forces
upon the Protestant Church the neeess
sity of freshly realizing the place ~
sane religious inspiration and right
spiritual leadership in matters con-
cerning relations between the Nero
and the white races
Garvey is a native Negro of. lama
lea, who came to New York in 1919
Mlth background Of a good eduea-
ton, with Catholic upbringing but
at present, out of sympathy WITH anv
organized church, with the experience
OF a newspaper man and of travel in
europe; especially London and En-
gland. his coming to New York gave
him the opportunity to immediately
gather about him a large number az
the West Indians resident i'm Harlem
and elsewhere in New York. city.
with the gifts and genius Of the Ne
gro orator of the popular type his in
IIuence has gone beyond his first
West Indian followers. Now he has
a, considerable following IN all the
membership in his Universal Negro
Improvement Association and Afri-
can Communities League of rhe World
OF which he Is president general. He
addresses largely attempted meetings
in Negro tabernacle in the Harlem
area. Weekly there goes to his ex-
tended membership copies of "The
Negro tSa World the official organ Of
called World Convention" was as
sembled in New York city. AZ that
time a Constitution of Negro Liber-
ty was supposedly written.
Fundamentally Garvey plays upon
the idea of race Consciousness now at
the front among the Colored people
of America as with other races of the
world. In connection with II he advo-
Gates the idea of Negro colonization
in Africa, and of Negroes bsing COL
onlzation In Africa, and of Negroes
being responsible for leadership in
'toe Negro world. His plan is not
without financial relations invoIvin-
the Black Star Line with it's one
steamer plying between America aud
the West Indies and its two sLbsi-
diary boats. We also read OF tie Ne
gro Factories Corporation, OF the CO.
operative Laundry Plan, etc. 1t car
not be fully told what the outcome
of the movement will be. It is to be
feared that II is a largely inflated
and unstable affair 1t serves to em-
pl asize the Importance cf u right use
Of the present race consciousness of
the Negroes. as also sane methods of
thrift and investment.