| Show statistics reveal growing growling political power of negroes ITe groes in large luge northern cities NEW YORK the number ot of ne gross employed by the municipal government of new york city has hag increased per cent in the last nine years this fact flashed up today against the senates striate a refus ki I to con tinn firm judge parker for the supreme court Is ono one detail of many showing sh orain increased political awareness and solidarity amons among the millions ol 01 recently urbanized northern negroes both senators copeland and wagner of new york voted against confirmation fir of judge porker parker as did senators deneen and olenn of illinois and vandenburg and of michigan all representing centers of larse largo and newly acquired negro population not only in new york but in other cities have the negroes made rapid advances in the last ten years in landing on city payrolls whether the transplanted northern negro co constitutes 1141 a new and articulate national political force strong enough to get city jim and now recording his first large largo scale assertion of power in the parker bote Is a qu stica which po lotical analysts arc are po pondering the me 1930 census figures tor for negro population are not ye available avat laMe but official and n m official estimates babet on the 1920 ceniu indicate that new ne york city now no has abbat av ir COO bitin os o fl s philadel ihli hta OCO chicago OCO and detroit in 1850 lees less than negros ched in cities of mure more than 00 ily JY 1920 1910 this number had Inre increased ased to 3 and it Is now estimated to be well oer ner tant 9 latie inge la in tie ge of this urban increase In creaso it 1 going to n ro jtb athern gitles Is shown by the fact that in the tle decade from 1910 to 1920 1020 the negro popi population atlon lation of chica increased from 3 2 per cent to 4 philadelphia 5 5 t 4 at uti ti it 12 lat t 4 1 14 rk city 14 19 t 21 17 cincinnati 3 4 to 7 5 and cavola ii 15 1 5 t tr 4 3 it Is iq bal th 1430 amt aill show al proportionate increases with a much greater rie ri rl e in new york sity city 1 |
