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... co - operation more clearly than do the professional group . The colored race has more hope of progress through their leadership than through that of any other group . Those engaged in the larger businesses belong to the same social ...
... co - operation more clearly than do the professional group . The colored race has more hope of progress through their leadership than through that of any other group . Those engaged in the larger businesses belong to the same social ...
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... co - operation and faith in each other would not come amiss . There is no end to what might be accomplished if the more influential ministers would begin to preach thrift , higher economic standards and co - operation . There are a few ...
... co - operation and faith in each other would not come amiss . There is no end to what might be accomplished if the more influential ministers would begin to preach thrift , higher economic standards and co - operation . There are a few ...
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... co - operation should be based . It must grow gradually and be builded upon business principles and not alone on race consciousness or sentiment . However , enough evidence has been presented to show that there is a need and opportunity for ...
... co - operation should be based . It must grow gradually and be builded upon business principles and not alone on race consciousness or sentiment . However , enough evidence has been presented to show that there is a need and opportunity for ...
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... co - operation , and has probably in- spired greater confidence on the part of his customers toward negro busi- ness men . On the other hand , white customers will feel under no obliga- tion to continue trading with colored men , if ...
... co - operation , and has probably in- spired greater confidence on the part of his customers toward negro busi- ness men . On the other hand , white customers will feel under no obliga- tion to continue trading with colored men , if ...
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... co - operative shoe store which is doing a thriving business . In spite of the large demand , only one struggling ... operation . Larger businesses could be built up ; greater opportunity would be furnished for the young in com- mercial ...
... co - operative shoe store which is doing a thriving business . In spite of the large demand , only one struggling ... operation . Larger businesses could be built up ; greater opportunity would be furnished for the young in com- mercial ...
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Industrial Conditions Among Negroes in St. Louis (1914) William August Crossland No preview available - 2008 |
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approximately artisan group Average Wages average weekly wage barber shops better business enterprises capital Census chauffeurs churches clerical clerks co-operation colored boys colored business colored enterprises colored entrepreneurs colored labor colored men colored race colored waiters colored women colored workers common labor group companies considerable Dean Thomas drivers drug stores earn employed employers employment engaged factory group factory occupations female foreign born foundries graduates hodcarriers Horse Trainers ice and coal income industrial conditions iron and steel janitors Kansas City large number less Louis colored Louis Negroes native whites negro labor negro population Newsboys number of colored number of negro number of workers occupations organization paid patrons percent percentage personal service group Philadelphia Philadelphia Negro porters pressing and cleaning professional proprietors Pullman receive rent saloons skilled steam laundry Sumner High School teamsters Tobacco Workers total number trade unions undertaking establishments unskilled labor wage earners white unions
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Page 68 - The reasons for this are not far to seek. It has been the general policy of almost all labor unions to exclude the Negro from membership.
Page 46 - ... watermelons, established in shanties or sheds all over the city. The fifteen " miscellaneous " enterprises include one milliner, one tailor, two dressmakers, one hairdresser, two artists, one printer, one dyer and cleaner, three blacksmiths, one wagonmaker, one jeweler, and one dealer in teas and coffees. Of these 75 enterprises 27 have been established in the last year, and only 9 were in existence in 1890. The disposition on the part of the Negroes to patronize their own race is growing, and...
Page 66 - The reason why Kansas City can boast of such a large class of artisans is because of the operations of the Afro-American Investment and Employment Company founded by FJ Weaver and associates. The company contracts with private parties and real estate companies to do repairing, overhauling, cleaning, remodeling of buildings and houses at a reasonable figure. Most of the business of this company comes from the whites.
Page 43 - School 2 Hospital 1 Insurance Company 1 Real Estate Dealers 3 Contractors 2 Hotels 3 17 1 Restaurants 25 26 66 Saloons 22 5 2 Pool rooms 30 10 1...
Page 84 - They bale up the scrap leather, slip, or shave the leather shoe heels as they come from the cutter.
Page 74 - Frequent strikes were called which interfered with the output of the plants. The employers retaliated with lock-outs, using nonunion immigrant labor, and so the war went on. The immigrants were used in large numbers for all types of foundry work. As time went on the native whites yielded their places to the Irish and Germans who in...
Page 75 - Negroes. In passing through the foundry one sees all the cranes of every size and capacity manned by Negroes.
Page 93 - V direct one's attention to the limited fields of employment for Negro high school graduates, especially so since clerical and mechanical work, business and professional service, must be engaged in almost wholly among Negroes, yet few if any of the 911...
Page 74 - ... Hungarians, Poles, and various Slavic groups. The work was unskilled, and required no previous training. Occasionally white employers would hire a Negro for the most dangerous and disagreeable tasks, which white men had refused to perform. As time went on even the foreigners would strike for a higher wage and for the recognition of their interests.
Page 75 - It was not long till they became efficient enough to enter every department of work except the pattern, electrical, and machine rooms. They had begun as common laborers, firemen, roughers and chainers, but soon became rammers, shippers, coremakers, moulders, moulders