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REPORT on negro
MIGRATION
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Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 13.—The report
of the negro migration committee of
the City Club of Atlanta, which has
just been made public here, is re
garded as an unusually strong docu
ment, going into many details of the
subject.
It was a difficult task, as pointed
out by the chairman of the commit
tee, Joel Hunter, well known busi
ness counsellor, himself a statisti
cian of national repute. There were,
as the report states, “a multitude of
ideas, phases, angles and explana
tions that the committee had pre
sented to it.”
‘‘The migration of the negro is
in no sense a sectional issue; it
affects directly every community in
the nation and it can be fairly con
sidered only as a national movement
with whatever of good or ill it fore
bodes,” says the report. “It is not
a problem of the last three or four
years. It had its beginning shortly
after the Civil War, and for 50 years
the normal volume of the tide was
about .10,000 per year. During the
labor shortage resulting from the
World War the rate increased sharp
ly, and with the return of negro
troops from France, many of whom
stopped in the North on their way
home, the present wave assumed even
larger proportions. It remained for
the drastic Immigration Law to bring
about the labor vacuum in the larger
industrial centers of the North and
East, to turn the exodus into a ver
tiable tidal wave.”
Discussing the cause the committee
says: “Migration is a symptom of
a fundamental economic and so
logical law. An industrial vacuum
has drawn into itself the surplus of
idle and partially employed labor at
a rate of pay far in excess of the nor
mal rate paid such labor under pre
vious conditions. There have been
and are many contributing minor
causes, but they but intensify the
economic answer.
“The industrial vacuum is too well
known to require further discussion
but the ‘field’ deserves special con
sideration. For years there has
been a strong movement from rural
to urban communities, due to the
more comfortable and convenient
living conditions and the better edu
cational facilities. The facts indicate
clearly that white Georgia farmers
are treking to the larger centers
ever increasing numbers, which im
pels us to study the basis conditions
of Georgia rural life even more
broadly than for a solution of the
negro migration alone.”
Local causes impelling the negro,
as pointed out by the committee, to
which Bishop J. B. Flipper, colored,
had called attention are:
Low wages for farm labor; poor
housing conditions; bad working con
ditions on farms managed by over
seers; lack of educational facilities
and inequality in law enforcement.
“But these ‘causes’”, says the com
mittee are symptoms only of actual
conditions which bare basic. The
boll weevil, low-priced cotton, bad
roads, unsound credit facilities and
many other features contributed to
stifle the orderly agricultural de
velopment of a territory which all
agree should be the richest in the
whole country.”
“As an industrial unit,” the com
mittee says further, “the negro be
comes a producer with a definite pur
chasing power, in which capacity he
becomes more valuable than as an
indifferent farm laborer living on the
bounty of his landlord. And for the
negro who remains at home there
must come an increase in wage and
slowly improving conditions.
“The net result for the negro can
not but show an advantage to hi.
credit. Balancing the account for
Georgia is a more difficult task. It
must naturally follow that the white
laborer must be paid a higher wage
and his general conditions improved
when he is relieved of negro compe
tition. Georgia will enjoy a real op
portunity to secure a white farming-
class; the son of the white farmer
will be better content to remain on
the farm while demanding better
farming conditions and more improv
ed methods, and shortly the whole
agricultural situation will be improv
ed to Georgia’s untold benefit. The
race problem will be solved; the boll
weevil will disappear through diver
sification and the vexing tax question
will become simpler by the creation
of new wealth.”
The committee says investigation
forces it to two conclusions as fol
lows: “First, whether the tenant
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system of farming is not very largely
esponsible for the volume of negro
migration from Georgia, and i f con
duces to the very unsatisfactory ag
ricultural conditions which obtains
generally throughout the state.
“Second. That the antiquated tax
system now in force in the state ag
gravates both the agricultural and
industrial conditions which makes it
possible for the labor vacuum in the
industrial centers to break down the
economic structure of a rich sec
tion.”
Lonely.
He who gives his friends a loan wins
popularity, but when he wants It back
again, then he alone will be.—Topics
of the Day Films.
Progress.
It may be tme that the man who
believes thoroughly In himself Is likely
to go far, but the one who gets others
to believe In him will go farther.
It is about time to save
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at Thomson Hardware ^ ° f mowers and
Co.
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Liberal Cash Advances Made On
Consignments.
SMITH & CRANE
Cotton Factors
Also Distributors of Weevil-Nip.
20 Jackson Street Augusta, Ga.
JAMES TOBIN FERDINAND PHINIZY JOHN TOBIN
Again offer their services to the people of McDuffie county and
the adjacent territory as commission merchants.
On all cotton shipments entrusted to them they pledge their
close personal attention as has been their custom in the past.
PHINIZY & COMPANY
Cotton Factors
AUGUSTA, GA.
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