Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
On The Migration Of Negro Workers

From all sections of the state reports of large
scale migration of Negro Workers to other sections of the
nation While there may be figures available on the act
ua numbers who have already left the state the number OF
those who have since the beginning summer would
without doubt run up to thousands with others still
leaving alta rate that will all but equal the number who have
already before the northern begin to fy when
Southern Negro workers. the cold weather
of the north, will be little hesitant deciding to
leave the mild winter of the south for the colder northern
cline.
Examining the that undelay such large and
widespread migration of Negro workers from Mississippi
one apt to be largely guided reaching opinion espe
clay in such times exist by the great demand
workers being the chief nducement to such large scale
movement is fairly certain that the advertising campaign
being conducted the state by large outside employers
the presence of numerous agents of large employers from
other section offering free transportation with much higher
than Negro workers the state have heretofore been
able to have been and now playing large part in
influencing this migratory movement
In considering the high wages that they are now able
to outside of the state Negro workers maybe said
be overlooking the great increase demand for Negro work
and the large increase in with exceptions
being paid in the state which offer comparable oppor
unes for savings that will equal those of other sections
of the country when consideration is given the high cost
of living existing in those sections compared with those
of Mississippi.
the above conectures however there can be only
purely economic aspects of what must conceivaby be
much more far reaching question such is the case
might Wen DE discovered If comprehensive intelligent and
sympathetic study could be made of the attitudes of tho
greater percentage of Negro workers have left and are
continuing to leave the state.
Leaving the purely economic aspects of the question
then be well that consideration be given to other IN
tuences which at once broadens the whole question: in
ences that be much more responsible for the
attitude OF Mississippi Negro workers towards migration
hah what appears up first view What these influences
are may easily be discovered in the currently prevailing
sheraton being given to the question the Negroes pres
ent and future status as citizens of Mississippi what
ne night expect under the existing law constitution of
of
united States while dwelling within its boundary Here we
nave the social aspects of the question out which
influences whose recognized centuries before
the birth OF modern sociology in the eternal ad
age that man cannot live by bread alone
Combined, the economic and social aspects of the cues
ton may be forming in the minds Negro the
resStabe impulse to leave the state and unless something
can be done to the effects of BOTH large employers
OF seasonal Negro workers. especially in the cotton indus
try, and those large employers as small ones who
are now engaged in production may, a state once
noted for its almost nexhaustab supply good ardwork
ing Negro workers, find themselves faced with growing
and increasingly serious shortage of such workers