. The Saturday evening post. ities with growingnegro populations. The negro works underracial as well as economic handicaps. Evenin the North he can only follow certain oc-cupations, mostly semiskilled, and is re-stricted in education, living quarters andother circumstances of his life. Negrogrievances are being painted in vivid colorsby the radical agitator. General economichandicaps in no way connected with racehave been added to them. Discontent isevident to-day wherever negroes live. Thesoap-box orator speaks, and nobody pre-sents the other side of his issues. During the past few years rad
. The Saturday evening post. ities with growingnegro populations. The negro works underracial as well as economic handicaps. Evenin the North he can only follow certain oc-cupations, mostly semiskilled, and is re-stricted in education, living quarters andother circumstances of his life. Negrogrievances are being painted in vivid colorsby the radical agitator. General economichandicaps in no way connected with racehave been added to them. Discontent isevident to-day wherever negroes live. Thesoap-box orator speaks, and nobody pre-sents the other side of his issues. During the past few years radicalism hagspread fast among labor organizations. Agood many Americans probably regard thisas a matter of course, assuming that laborand radicalism go together. But that is afallacy. Labor unions have a program ofsocial reform which is conservative. Theyseek higher wages, shorter hours and im-proved working conditions through organ-ization bargaining, legislation and- like(Continued on Page 149) THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 147.
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