. Crisis. 276 THE CRISIS. of Engraving- and Printing has been putinto effect, and that another order to ex-clude colored girls from lunchrooms hasalso been put into effect, I have the honorto state that no such general order hasbeen issued in this bureau. It is a fact,however, that in the lunchrooms used bythe printers assistants, many of whom arecolored, and where there are six tables, twoof the tables Avere assigned especially forthe use of the colored girls for the reasonthat it is believed that it would be betterfor them to associate together when eatingtheir lunches. The colored assistant
. Crisis. 276 THE CRISIS. of Engraving- and Printing has been putinto effect, and that another order to ex-clude colored girls from lunchrooms hasalso been put into effect, I have the honorto state that no such general order hasbeen issued in this bureau. It is a fact,however, that in the lunchrooms used bythe printers assistants, many of whom arecolored, and where there are six tables, twoof the tables Avere assigned especially forthe use of the colored girls for the reasonthat it is believed that it would be betterfor them to associate together when eatingtheir lunches. The colored assistants arepermitted free access to the lunchrooms andare served the same food as that furnishedthe white assistants, and there have beenno objections on the part of the coloredgirls to using the tables assigned them,except on the part of three colored assist-ants who persisted in sitting at the tablesoccupied by white girls after one or twoof the white girls had made an objection tothem occupying the same tables. A kindlysugge
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