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Chapter XIV: Public Opinion Regarding the Migration (3)

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Social conditions:
in Pittsburgh, 121;
in Cleveland, 127.
_See also_ Welfare work.

Social Service Commission of the Churches of Christ, 121.

Solvay Steel Castings Co., employment of negro labor, 114.

South Carolina:
migrations from, 46-47;
race conference, 172.

_Southwestern Christian Advocate_, 144.

Springfield, migrations to, 126.

Springfield _Union_, 158.

Stanton, V.L., 81.

Steel industry:
demand for labor, 38, 119;
negroes employed in Pittsburgh, 122.

Steel molders, wages of, 114.

Stimulation of migrations. _See_ Influences.

Street construction workers, wages of, 114.

Street tax in South, cause of migration, 20.

Superstitions of migrants, 40, 45-46.

Swift and Company, employment of negro labor, 100.

Tannery laborers, wages of, 114.

Teachers, wages of, 18.

Tennessee:
migrations from, 4-5, 95-96, 99;
migrations to, 68;
lynchings, 22.

Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., 93.

Texas:
migrations to, 3;
migrations from, 4;
Colonization Council, 5.

Theater ushers, women employed as, 129.

Thirkfield, Bishop W.P., 83.

Tifton _Gazette_, 79.

Tobacco fields, wages of labor employed in, 17.

Trakem Pump Co., employment of negro labor, 106.

Tunnell Construction Co., employment of negro labor, 114-115.

Tuskegee Institute:
efforts to check migrations, 81;
conference of, 82.

Transfer yards, negro labor employed in, 100.

Transportation, influence on migration of fears of, 28-29.

Transportation paid by Northern employers, 135.

Traveling accommodations, influence on migrations, 21-22;
effects of migrations, 91.

Trenton, migrations to, 57.

Truckers, employment of negro laborers as, 129.

"Underground Railroad," 68.

Unemployment, 14-16, 59.

Union Central Relief Association, 64.

United States Production Co., 109.

Unskilled labor, 122, 129.

_Vicksburg Herald_, 153.

Virginia, migrations from, 39.

Wages:--
South:
cause of migrations, 14-18, 29, 34, 83, 171;
comments of press, 84;
effects of migrations, 81, 83, 85-87, 91.
North:
In Pittsburgh, 18, 123-124;
in Massachusetts, 17;
in Minnesota, 18;
in St. Louis, 96-97, 99;
in Chicago, 17, 102-103, 109-110, 114;
in Rockford, 106-107;
in Waukegan, 108;
in Beloit, 111;
in Milwaukee, 113-115;
in Detroit, 129-130;
in Philadelphia, 136;
in New Jersey, 140;
in Hartford, 142.

Walker, A.P., 37.

Walla Walla _Bulletin_, 160.

Warehousemen, wages of, 17.

Waukegan, migrations to, 108-109.

Waukegan industries, employment of negro labor, 108-109.

Wehr Steel and Machine Shops, employment of negro labor, 113.

Welfare work:
National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, 93, 143-144, 149;
in Chicago, 103;
in Ohio, 126-128;
in Detroit, 131;
in New Jersey, 139-141;
in Philadelphia, 137-139;
in Hartford, 141-142.

Wilberforce University, 128.

Wilder Tannery Co., employment of negro labor, 108.

Wills, J. Walter, 128.

Wilmington, migrations to, 134.

Wilson Packing Co., wages paid by, 103.

Winston, Francis D., 153.

Wisconsin:
migrations to, 110-111;
wages, 111.
_See also_ Milwaukee.

Women's Health League, 88.

Woods, J.S., 114.

Wright, R.R., 171.

Yard workers, wages of, 17.

York, migrations to, 134.

Young Negroes' Progressive Association, 132.

Youngstown, migrations to, 57, 126.

End of Project Gutenberg's Negro Migration during the War, by Emmett J. Scott

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