The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21

dredgers) don't make a living.S
In spite Of such conditions, Negl
workers usually prefer the oyst,
houses and canneries to the farm
AS one white sympathizer-a ven
rare thing on the Eastern Shorel-
said to us, They like to work
groups" The same person told /
that Negroes, when they are not
piece-rates, have a very definite fee
ing that they must protect then
selves from overtime and having {
go to work early. There is no publ
demonstration of this, though it
recognized on both sides" In 9TH
ways also, the Negroes of this regio
stick together as if by instinct; new
that travels by the grapevine mthe
through their communities seldom,
ever, reaches the ears OF whites.
Through a reliable source, howeve
we heard Of secret club among I'll
Negroes, which penalties its membei
for going in the back door Of Whit
peoples houses, as the unwritten la
of the Eastern shore demands.
Most white people of the Easter
shore do not realize that the feelir I
of resentment which exists among IL
Negroes is too deep-seated to |
broken by acts of terror against il
diyiduals. At the same time, II
ruling-class whites feel the need
demanding whipping posts in II
jails, to match those in the Delawal
jails few miles away. These wei
set UP only last year and are reserve
for chicken thieves and wife-beai
ers" A judge decides on the numbt
Of lashes, and the sheriff himself az
plies the cat o. nine tails; each thon
in the bunch leaves a separate nun
Der of lashes. So far only Negrot
have been convicted of "chicker
stealing and wife-beating" On IL
Maryland side of the Eastern slor :
chicken stealing brings at least a sisy
months jail sentence, but it is fe
that the whipping would Il
cheaper and more memorable. II
Ruling-cla whites talk a gooes
deal about the "upstart" young Ne
groes, and there is a definite bas,,
for the assumption that the presefs
generation is less inclined than ir
parents were to trust the masters
Many Children Enslaved by Charitf
Agencies Il
With the Negroes now Drifting
more and more into the small season..
al industries, working together ia
groups of so to 200 under condition
of intense industrial exploitation, thee
have acquired a stronger group e
class consciousness, and approve lese
and less of isolating Negro chilli
in a white household. They say
makes him queer" They don't thinr
much of the mother who gives him
away, no matter what her circuna
stances. The good" white counts
families, Of course, are very anxiotl-
to continue this convenient methoy
of getting free farmland or house
servant, and they don't see why =
should die out" .
1t would be impossible today to ses
cure any exact figures Of indenture,
as this form of slavery is called, o.
the Eastern short.
The mainstay of this vicious FORE
of peonage are the so-called chart
table institutions of New York, Bah
timore, and other cities.
Ninety children from New York
are now shaving for their keep In,
"free homes on the Eastern shore,
having been placed there by the,
Children's Aid Society of New York.
The Children's Aid of Baltimore has
20 such placements" in the same
region, and the City Charities OF
Baltimore As.
Other out-of state agencies tax.
of the fact that the East
ern shore is careful to have no relic,
machinery to check up or even kee,
records of such things. to ship chill,
dren into these Maryland foster.
homes
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