The Old Negro and the
New
A Durham, N.C., firm is showing in a novel manner that
kindly race relations may be carried over from the old days and adapted to
up-to-the minute business. The Durham Hosiery Mills has just opened a new
factory which has been named after John O’Daniels, an old colored man who
served the parents of the mill company’s president in former days with a
faithfulness which his white friends feel deserves the recognition of people of
both races.
The mill will be operated entirely by colored labor, and in
making this industrial opening for Negroes the company is providing homes for
the workmen of modern type, preserving under present conditions the tradition
of an older generation of consideration for its workers.
The educational advantage for Negroes in Durham are
excellent, owing largely to the generous interest of Col. Carr who is living
evidence that an old Confederate soldier may remain a constructive force in his
country’s service into a green old age.
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