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Show 1 NEGROES ARE FLOCKING TO 0 SOUTH AGAIN Find High Wages in the North Offset By Many Factors Ik GLITTERING PROMISES OF ' il AGENTS GO UNFULFILLED j Native Labor Hastens Back Home Before Coming of Northern Winter K. V Bopctol.) MEMI'IMB. Oct. 2. Thousands or nJESZ 5ho nocked north by traJn-iSSi traJn-iSSi during the summer, arc returo-hlihir returo-hlihir ind better 'ondi on KSut which employni Mrts gnbi) talked, thfir old employer sav th ir. eacerlv seeking to return to the work thev left ..w , with business Blackening In man) northern Industrial eetera. the no-rrT no-rrT , round th it thy wt re usuaUs thi f,7 , , be laid off th. job Country negroes declare thr-ir his-hrr p.-xy ws rn,,r. I',,.. . ountcrhalanced hy In crrai-d II Ing COStS m Industrial cities rMi negroes .'ft'!' found their wages ;r, north( rn . .tie. did nO rqual their pay In southern cities MWY REASONS. Lack of adequate hpuflng facilities v stranRe ronelltlons. homesick ness. fall-v,re fall-v,re t- find the Improved social treat-, m.-nt for whl h some had hoped, more rip..rous climates, rare riotinjr. harder work theee are some of the Which are nendlnK the negroes back south in a sternly stream. Report received by local employ-. 93S inent bureau show tint 2&0.000 ne- , vroeS vent north during June July ftud August, this year. There WaS coniiiderable nc'ro migration almost from the start of the war. rjHjj Tennessee. Arkansas. Mississippi Ml Oorgla. Alabama and Kentucky were ?Wt chiefly hit by the negro miration. 1 iMT Mississippi showing an actual decrease IJbW In population. whom: TRAfKIiOADS. holl trolnloads of hegroei went north dally during the peak of the fm migration, Almost every day during OR the three summer months 200 riegrOOl' llS left Memphis for Detroit and nearby I j oint- Tralnload. like e-uttb- were J shipped away to work on northern railroads. Eastern corporations and BH railroads Rent agent! ihrmnrmnit the south to hire labor, and efforts to pre-vent pre-vent the migration accomplished llille. BB According to estimates by men whe BBV studied the problem. 6i per cent of the negroes who went north worked on railroad construe tiein Jol,. I'enn-jQH I'enn-jQH sylvanla used a large- number on stale BBfl roads. Akron, O.. Is estimated to have ItgV taken 30,000 negroes from the Mem- BV phis territory. ifBJK Tli supply of negro labor In MIs- :ffBJ sisslppl Is estimated to have been cut ' i B 50 rer cent during the summer. NOT GOOD R. It MEN m Negroefl were not a success as rall- e A road workers, according to local rall- r'gtf road agvnta sIBJ According to Tt C Wells of the rXI Memphis employmput bureau, and rail- j , 'j1 road man. the mlprrutlon of negroes. has now almost completely Stopped, while the return movement Is growing ) so heavy that, if It continues at Its present rate, about S5 per cent of j lm thns who left will have returned be- ; (ii fore the end of the winter. |