The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-12-30

demands OF World War times. Pros
perity has been restored to the in
dustrial world, and, largely because
OF the stringent immigration laws,
labor Is greatly in demand. So great
has become the opening for Colored
labor, that even at this winter period,
there is now in progress a new ex-
odus in the South. Observation in
the great railway centers leading
from the South, discloses in this
winter season that thousands are
coming North and finding their day
into industrial fields 1t is opportune
and important to state that the pre-.
sent migration augers serious posi-.
bilities for the Spring of 1923, when
the opportunities, as well as the de
mands will be greatly increased
North as well as South. The migra'
ton of 1917 and 1918 created new
consideration of the better class OF
whites in the South for Industrial
and educational betterment but the
continued feeling OF unsafeness, the
unabatement, Of lynchings, disfran
chisement and various forms of op
preston, serve to keep up the desire
to move somewhere North. where
additional problems are created for
the pioneer residents of the northern
sections. but In the face of industrial
opportunities and thoughts of larger
freedom; seem for the present to be
beyond contEol
Unions and Open Shop. A majority
of all Colorea workers do not belong
to any labor union. The increased
Colored population of the North has
caused the american Federation OF
Labor to give careful study to the
subject, and In its basic law there
is supposed 10 be no discrimination
and yet on the other hand, there are
number Of crafts in the North II
which It Is a6soIutely impossible f0i
Colored workers to become members
This kind of discrimination has haC
a tendency to embitter workers agains
labor unions, and has created wide
interest in the plan of the "OpeI
Shop. In fact, the open Shop" ad
vocates are the largest employers o
! Colored workers, and in many in
stances, the most notable of which
of course Is the United States Stee
Corporation, the treatment has beer
so fair, and the opportunities so en-
couraging, that the workers hav,
steadfastly refused to come under tn,
banner of unionism. The Industrial
Workers OF the World have, will
their radical propaganda, sought t
encourage Colored membership. Thei
success has been only nominal, bu
their propaganda continues. TIL,
Communists, from their far ava,
headquarters in Russia, have, it i
learned on high authority, helped t,
finance propaganda and movement
calculated to embitter Colored work
ers against the so-called Capitalist
Glass" as well as against the govern
ment itself. In the face of certain
conditions, they are able to presen
convincing arguments, but thus ia
they have had but little effect on tn
masses. However, the gravity of tn
situation Is recognized, and counte
movements and activities have bee
| launched by the more cOnservativ
who, through wise counsel and edu
cation hope to bring about state o
affairs based on practical possibilitie
and sympathetic understanding tina
will redown for all time to the benz
fit of the great ana increasing arm
of Colored industrial workers.
TRIuMvlRATE or GREAT
Frederick Douglass. This yea
marks the dedication of the ostat
of Frederick Dc lglass, anti-slaver
| agitator, as an eternal shrine to nui
ture the hopes Of Colored America
The occasion was one Of national sii
nificance, and was attended by thol
sands from sections of the couI
try. The care of the estate is unde
the direction Of grou of wome
headed by Mrs Mary b. Talbert G
Buffalo. N. X, and their bility t
free the place from debt, beautify 1
and dedicate II to the inspirations
benefit OF the people, marks res
triumph in racial achievement,
Booker 7. Washington. A magnii
cent monument was dedicated to IN
memory Of Booker T. Washington a
Tuskegees Institute last year TIL
monument was erected with fund
from Colored America, the funds co
lected under the direction Of DR.. En-
nett j. Scott, who for twenty-on
years co-operated in the developmer
of Tuskesee Institute The even
which was attended by both group
of Americans from all sections Of tn
country, emphasizes further til
growth Of appreciation and gratitud
within the race.
| Colonel Charles Young. The deaf
Of Colonel Charles Young, OF tn
United States Army, a graduate {
West Point Academy. called for
national memorial observance on HI
birthday, March -, which surpasse
in significance and scope any prev
Gus similar event ever held in anne
lea within the group. Colonel Youn
died In Nigeria, West Africa, and tn
War Department has arranged for tn
removal VI HIS remains to this coul
try, where it will be inferred wit
military honovs in the national bur,
ing ground OF the military dead,
Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, outsid
of Washington. President Harding
General Pershing, Secretary Of We