Show i I I 1 BlACKS lEAVE i MISSISSIPPI FOR NORTH I Washington J June line hunger 7 j. Hunger cr wages I and lack lad of employment during a larget large t I part of the year ar are assigned as 08 among the thu cau causes es of n negro ro migration front Mississippi In a report Ol of oil negro migration mi gt gration In 1916 17 b by R. R II U. Ic Leavell of Mississippi lis just Issued through the office office of of- of- of fice flee of the lie director of negro economics department of or labor Wages ases In Routh- Routh I south south- southwest west tot 1 n rarely rely exceeded j jI 73 Cl cents a day Mr Ir Leavell reports though h ha I a n ranJ range from GO 0 O cents to 1 1 appeared In hi his Investigation In I The Tho volume of or migration from MIs- MIs bi to the norih north cannot readily s I ho hu 11 determined but bill an estimate IJ by V At TL T. T I IJ U Williams V places the tho CI figure uro for Mis Mis- Mis sis at al about In ti lIate els eighteen months month Numerous cr cruses uses contributed to the thel movement l amon among them bent tho rho disastrous storm of 1016 1910 and the boll weevil wee which necessitated means of cultivation atlon that th inquired I less labor power Improved cd living conditions in the north described by tho o ano h had td already left the lie state slate proved pro a 3 great Ireat factor In Inducing others to go 0 Tho The increased ed death rate from pellagra in IMS Uli and pellagra rn mortality mor mor- mortality fI figures in general apparently have havo a direct relation to wage wase rates Pellagra Is duo to a monotonous lowI low I diet which can be correct corrected ell b by using m meats vegetables and cereals in greater abundance Economic motives were present In practically eYer every case SC of negro ro migration migra migra- migration tion lion according n. to Mr lr Leavell ell but the feeling on tho the part of or the negro that he heI heis heis I is discriminated against in business Inthe in tlc the schools and in the tho courts has been also a great rea factor |