| Show on a sugar plantation the relations between employer and employed emp loyes on a bugar sugar estate are unique they thu are arc tho the nearest nearest approach in america to a i feudal system not a foot of land do the laborers own yet theirry their right r lit to homos homes and labor on oil an 4 estate S tt ia i sort of unwritten law so binding bin binding dint that they aie very seldom bell sent away except for very serious cause they regard he file mules and implements of the planter as to some extent their own using then thein to cultivate their theil gardens mar denland and to haul their fuel in indirect directing in the plantation work lie seldom uses iny any harsh words of command talk rather in kindly tones scolds a little if needs be but in rather a parental fashion asks opinions at times irom from swarthy old uncles who have a standing on oil the place as a faithful men and experts in cane culture knows tile the stron strong and weak points in the character af of every man in in his employment indeed his rule is so mild that a i stranger strang e r to plantation life wonders how the uncouth mass of black laborers is held to together 0 ether and disciplined discipline d so as to produce favorable industrial results E V 11 smalley Sma llcy in century |
