Phoenix tribune., 1923-01-06

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the Democrat party of states South.
Concentration of hope centcred in two
measures before Congress. the Liber-
ian Loan, and the Dyer Anti-Lynching
bill, both of which passed the House
of Representatives hut failed in the
United States Senate. This condition
of surrender to Democratic minority
tactics has disturbed the poise and
dampened the enthusiasm of Colored
Republican leadership, while on the
other hand it has spurred the masses
of tie people to resourceful political
thinking. At least ten Colored citi-
zens in northern states have been
elected to places in state legislatures,
one in New York, a Democrat, and
the others Republican President
Harding has been unsuccessful in hav-
ing Colored appointees confirmed by
the Senate, except in two instances,
and there has been much criticism
throughout the group against political
compromise and official segregation.
Colored political leadership at present
is lacking in statemanship that is able
to get effective nationwide results, and
demonstrates the absolute necessity of
having in both the House and the
Senate racial representation.
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dian Island Republics under American
domination, have been thoughtfully
studied in this country. Study of
these republics, aside from the COM
licating question of right or wrong of
United States intervention, along with
Cuba, Porto Rico, the Central America
and South American republics have
seemed to offer unusual economic
opportunities for sympathetic action
and development The State Depart
ment appointed Captain Napoleon B.
Marshall to a position in the Ameri-
can Legation, Port au Prince, Haiti
and there are at present at least half
a dozen business ventures organized
by Colored Americans for the purpose
of promoting commercial trade in the
countries to the South, all of which
have promising possibilities, and one
of which is a line of ocean going steam
ships. Through exchange in reading
and travel Colored America has
learned with enthusiasm that the
peope to the South of this republic
are brothers of kind, in numerous in
stances; that color discrimination is
an Impractical art except wherein
troduced by whites of the South, and
the achievements in the field Of busi-
ness as well as along other lines pro-
mise to produce results that will be
10th profitable and satisfying.
ECONOMIC
Industrial Opportunity. Colored
America is in the midst of unprece-
dented industrial opportunity, and this
is not excepting the unusual demands
of World War times. Prosperity has
been restored to the industrial world,
and largely because of the stringent
immigration laws, labor is greatly in
demand So great has become the
openings for Colored labor, that even
at this winter period, there is now in
progress a new exodus from the South.
Observation in the great railroad
center leading from the South
discloses in this winter season that
thousands are coming North and find
ing their way into industrial fields.
1t is opportune and important to state
that the present migration augers seri-
Gus possibilities for the Spring of 1928,
when the opportunities, as we'll as
the demands will be greatly increased
North as well as South. The migrat-
ion of 1917 and 1918 created a new con-
sideration of the better class of whites
in the South for industrial and educat-
ional betterment, but the continued
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ment, of lynchings, disfranchisement
and various forms of oppression, serve
to keep up the desire to move some
where North, where additional pro
blems are created for the pioneer re-
sidents of the northern sections, but in
the face of industrial opportunities
and thoughts of larger freedom, seem
for the present to be beyond control.
Unions and Open Shops. A majority
of all Colored 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 sub
ject, and in its basic law there is sup
posed to be no discrimination; and
yet on the other hand, there are
number of crafts in the North in
which it is absolutely impossible for
Colored workers to become members.
This kind of discriminating has had