. Economic competition between the black and white races in the United States. sto fill an important place there. His rise is being achievedwith difficulty because of his in-ibility to manage the newlabor-saving The white man began to whitewash thewalls and clean the carpets with a mechanical sprayer andcleaner and rob the IJegro of that job. The ste-imi laundry be- 2 gan to do the work of the former colored laundress. The ,Megro could still in vood and iron and meet little op-position in felling trees and digging ore, but if he followedthe raw material into the factory his t
. Economic competition between the black and white races in the United States. sto fill an important place there. His rise is being achievedwith difficulty because of his in-ibility to manage the newlabor-saving The white man began to whitewash thewalls and clean the carpets with a mechanical sprayer andcleaner and rob the IJegro of that job. The ste-imi laundry be- 2 gan to do the work of the former colored laundress. The ,Megro could still in vood and iron and meet little op-position in felling trees and digging ore, but if he followedthe raw material into the factory his troubles began. Hesimply lacked the skill coupled ?7ith brains necessary to com-pete with the white m^an. In general there has been little discrimination because ofcolor but much because of inability to secure competent NegroesThey liave been helpers and usually proud of their work, and did 1. Page, T. 1., The llegro: the Southerners Problem, . 2. Commons, J. H., Races and Immiigrants in America, p. 47. 3. Washington, B. T., The Future of the Amierican Kegro, p. 43 good work v;hei:i told each separate thing to do every time it wasto be done; but when left alone they were inaccurate and oftendid their work the wrong v/ay.^ Mr. V/ashington says: The Iegro in the South works, andworks hard: but too often his ignorance and lack of skillcause him to do his Vvforl: in the most costly and shiftless man-ner, keeping him near the bottom, of the ladder in the economicp world. It is true that the standard of unskilled labor hasbeen raised as has the standard of skilled labor and Ilegroservants, farm; hands, waiters, janitors and other day laborersnov; do two or three times the amount of wcrk done by those inthe sam,e occupations fifty years ago. And out of three miil^ io:unskilled Kegro workers who were freed in 1863, and the few-thousand unskilled and semii-skilled who already had their free-dom there have developed the various occupations of Ilegroesthat prevail today. The
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