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Show SPEAK FOR NEGROES. Methods of Employment Agencies Denounced De-nounced at Mass Meeting. NEW YORK. May 1. At a mass meeting In the cause of negro education here, addresses were made by Prof. H. Y. At noil, financial secretary of W'll-burforce W'll-burforce university, and the Rev R. D. Stlnson, commissioner of Morris Brown college of Atlanta, Ga. Some of the local speakers denounced the methods of Deployment agencies here They asserted that of the twenty-live twenty-live coneerns engaged In Importing female fe-male colored servants from tho South, very few were controlled honestly. If the negro ,m-n lml any money. It was declared th-y were compelled to turn it over to th- agency, and when they secured positions here they were forced, under a written agreement, to turn over their earnings for two months In addition to paying their fare from the South |