The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-08-28
NEGRO WHO WENT
NORTH GIVES VIEWS
,1p1TES GEORGIA NEWSPA-
PER INTERESTING CoMMU-
VACATION ON MIGRATION.

The Atlanta Constitution, in re-
..nt issue, printed the following COM
u,nn;cation from a Georgia negro who
:, now in the north;
Editor Constitution: notice in
.o3ding your paper that great deal
!. being said about the negro leaving
OGo' vas a citizen of Georgia for sew
.d1 Tears and would be now if | had
e S.,a,niovment at living wages, which |
s Sn,,Id not find in Georgia.
'oG Although conditions here are not
hat suit me, neither do | find con-
nma ,r friends like in the south, | must
ss'a ,it for a living, and as | have three
'h;idren we all have to work here, tor
C C,,1 are high as we'll as everything
L. Lee and wages are just as little to
1 cen who have business experience as
t it,e can hire you for, and they think
, rnn will be compelled to continue
Iyrorking as you cannot save enough
W last long while hunting something
O' The negro is in demand because
4bey can use him shoveling dirt or
roIIing a wheelbarrow or carrying a
hod and his wages are from Soc to
Q0c an hour, generally working nine
I Iorrs a day. His wife also is in de-
n1and and she receives the modest
s .,ITr Of $3.50 and her dinner, together
with her car fare paid both ways, tor
doing the family washing OF a tami-
w Of three or four people.
- tho cn1tfh NOT
satisfied here. He likes TO make the
money and have a good living and
manv no doubt are glad to have the
white merchants call them MI"
ZONES or Mrs" Brown instead OF Bill
or Sambo, yet very few of them want
their bodies buried north of the Ohio.
They receive fair treatment here, and
get their pay regularly.
Passing laws to keep the negro
there | don't think will help, but if
the south will furnish him employ
nent at living wages he will stay and
2 great many who are north will come
back. -,
Little tightwad loan sharks in the
smaller towns of Georgia are dong
more harm to Georgia than all the
labor agents. They are not willing to
loan money to buy cattle, hogs or
sufficient for a man to exist while
raising a crop, but they will squeeze
poor borrower to the limit on a 100
per cent basis if they can.
The negro who has been forced to
raise cotton has tired of the boil wee
VII eating up his crop and, with moth
mo TO do. he pulls out for the place
where work is offered.
Georgia, with all its opportunities,
has made very little effort to locate
white people or to help those who are
satisfied to live there through hard
times.
If one half the noise wasted about
irving to force the negro to stay there
were spent in finding suitable en-
ployment for him at living wages he
would be satisfied, but he is not going
to work for $40 month, a bushel OF
meal and Is pounds of dry salt meat
when he can make $4 to SIS day,
even though he pays $25 to $50 a
month house rent and meets higher
living expenses.
The white people do not want the
negro here except those people who
are bent on making money. As ne
groes begin to rent in a district they
gradually crowd the whites to hunt
another location or pay higher rents.
The northern negro generally does
not want him either, because he looks
on him as ignorant, yet he soon mixes
in if he has been used to work. They
don't lay off two or three days week
from work here; if they do they lose
their Jobs J. q: McCCE,.
2QS2 Gilbert Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio.