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Sorry, No Jobs for Refugees in Elizabeth City, Says W.O. Saunders, Dec. 5, 1922

Elizabeth City Has No Place for the Refugees

The following telegram, as a result of rumors in circulation among the colored people here and elsewhere, was received by the Sun-Journal today from W.O. Saunders, Editor of the Elizabeth City Independent:

Elizabeth City, N. Car.

11:14 A. Dec. 5, 1922

The Sun-Journal

New Bern, N.C.

Some one has put out a report that Elizabeth City can find room for at least 100 of the families rendered homeless by the New Bern fire. Elizabeth City cannot do any such thing. There are jobless men walking the streets of Elizabeth City today and the wages of common labor in Elizabeth City are inadequate to the demands made upon the pay envelope by the purveyors of the actual necessities of life. It is conceivable that some one has put out a report to bait homeless New Bernians here for the purpose of further glutting the labor market and making possible another cut in the already inadequate pay of the working class. New Bernians should not be mislead into a trap which will not only give them no relieve but which will work a hardship upon their fellow workers in another town. It is to be hoped that the homeless in New Bern will find employment in rebuilding and rehabilitating their own beautiful town.

W.O. Saunders

From The New Bern Sun-Journal, Dec. 5, 1922

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