The Negro in the
North
With the signing of the armistice the tide began turning for
the negroes who have been flocking North for wartime employment. It is noted in
the press dispatches that the Philadelphia idea of getting rid of the negro is
to deport him. A large number of negroes who have been engaged in war
industries in Pennsylvania have found themselves thrown upon the charity of the
cold North, and the “constabulary” of the State has set about sending them
away. Colored organizations in Pennsylvania have sent protests to Secretary of
Labor Wilson against this heartless deportation proceedings and have offered
co-operation in finding employment for them. It is little the Department of
Labor can do, however, in the aid of these out-of-work negroes, and they are
being made to feel every day that their Northern friends, when the test comes,
care very little about their bodily comfort or salvation of soul. The negro’s
dream of a paradise in the North was but shortlived.
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