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Show MIGRATION OF NEGROES TO TOE NORTHWATGHED Hint of Possible Election Frauds Not Borne Out by Any Facts Given Out by Government Officials. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. Both the department of justice ami the department depart-ment of labor, are watching; closely the migration of southern negroes ( to northern north-ern industrial centers. The legal of fit-era liope to check possible election frauds, vhiJe the labor authorities are interested primarily in preventing their federal" employment service from being used to further migration schemes. Attorney General Gregory, in addition to general instructions recently given to federal district attorneys in advance of the elections, has ordered a special inquiry 'into complaints that negroes are being sent in considerable numbers to doubtful states under promises of work at high wages. District Attorney Miller at Louisville has been ordered to report the names, towns and destinations of all negroes or any other possible voters going go-ing from Kentucky, Alabama or an y other part of the south, passing through Louisville in auspicious numbers. Other district attorneys in the south and in middle states are understood to be under similar instructions. Decline to Talk. Department of justice officials decline de-cline to talk on the ground that it mi: lit interfere with the government's plans, a rid all reports aud correspondence are being withheld from publication. Tnc attorney general conferred today with his assistants on the subject of election frauds generally. He is giving the matter personal attention, and under his direction special agents of the department de-partment are at the cull of every district dis-trict attorney desiring assistance. Ho far complaints have reached the department depart-ment of alleged frauds or contemplated frauds affecting candidates for federal offices in Indiana, Illinois,, Ohio. Michigan, Michi-gan, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Vir-ginia, New York and Missouri. The. department of labor lot it become known that it had issued orders designed de-signed to prevent the use of the federal employment service in assisting in the migration of large numbers of negroes from the southern states. Assistant Secretary Sec-retary Post said the department had no intention of becoming party to schemes which might be devised for the purpose of lowering wages or breaking labor strikes. Willing to Help. At the some time it was made clear that 'in Cases where investigation proved it to be a fact that skilled laborers were being hindered because of la-k of im- skilled assistants and where there was legitimate work i or negroes efforts would be made to secure them just work just as any other class of labor would he secured. Much information regarding the migration mi-gration has been collected. In the south complaint is made that the negroes are being taken to the north with promises of much higher wages, and that if continued con-tinued a serious shortage of labor ma result. The labor department was represented rep-resented today as feeling that any laborer la-borer ifc justified in going to that place where the wages are best, and that the place he leaves can remedy the situation hy raising the scale. The ' American Federat ion of Labor, according to Secretary Frank Morrison, a iso is watching the movement of negroes ne-groes with the idea that "if it is not a scheme to get votes, it is for the purpose of securing cheaper labor than i available avail-able at. presenl . ' ' bvprosentat'ives of the federation have been askcl to observe and rent-it on all large movements of negro labor. |