Volume 6 — NOTES
Reading edition
On the first of October Mr. Victor R. Daly, who has recently been the Industrial Secretary of the New York Urban League, became the Business Manager of the Journal of Negro History. For some time his work will be largely in the field in an effort to extend the circulation of this publication and to find friends for this cause. It is earnestly hoped that the public will receive him as a coworker and give him the most hearty support.
The Association for the Study of Negro life and History will hold its next annual meeting at Lynchburg, Virginia, on the 14th and 15th of November. The morning sessions will be held at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College and the evening sessions at the Eighth street Baptist Church and at the Court street Baptist Church.
Men of national prominence will address this meeting. President R. C. Woods, of Virginia Theological Seminary and College, will deliver the welcome address, to which Professor John R. Hawkins will respond. Other addresses will be made by Dr. I. E. McDougle, Dr. W. H. Stokes, Professor Bernard W. Tyrrell, Professor Charles H. Wesley, and Dr. C. G. Woodson.
The April number of the Monthly Labor Review contains a discussion of various features of the labor situation of interest to all students of social sciences. It embraces among other things the treatment of the trend of child labor in the United States from 1913 to 1920, the average union scale of wage rates during the same period, Federal labor legislation, and Negro labor during and after the war. The treatment of the last topic centers around the work of Dr. George E. Haynes, who during the World War and for some time thereafter was the head of the Bureau of Negro Economics in the Department of Labor.
The article briefly discusses the formation of the division of Negro economics, showing the difficulties of finding a person competent to do the work and the handicap preventing the Department from carrying out its chief objective, that of bringing the two races together. The article shows, moreover, how the beginning was made in North Carolina among citizens of both, races, how they directed their attention seriously to the economic problems, and how many of the obstacles which at first were encountered were finally removed by hearty cooperation. There is a discussion of the industrial employment of Negroes during the scarcity of labor and the depression which followed after the war. In this case valuable statistics are given to set forth the writer's point of view. The article finally closes with a discussion of Negro women in industry. Here are given valuable facts as to how these workers were employed, the problems which they faced, and what this Department did to meet the exigencies of the situation. This short but valuable article may be read with interest and profit.
Transcriber's Notes:
Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. The transcriber made the following changes to the text to correct obvious errors:
1. p. 30, persons or persons --> person or persons 2. p. 30, herefter --> hereafter 3. p. 89, 26. --> 20. 4. p. 96, maunmission --> manumission 5. p. 99, indefiite --> indefinite 6. p. 104, perfer --> prefer 7. p. 107, bcome --> become 8. p. 111, atending --> attending 9. p. 115, Carcia --> Garcia 10. p. 129, non-partisian --> non-partisan 11. p. 155, doucments --> documents 12. p. 171, Binghan --> Bingham 13. p. 181, wthin --> within 14. p. 191, No footnote marker for footnote #5. 15. p. 199, neigbors --> neighbors 16. p. 200, deleted duplicate phrase "and of the enslaved" 17. p. 202, No footnote marker for footnote #1. 18. p. 207, pusuing --> pursuing 19. p. 211, thoroughout --> throughout 20. p. 216, carrying-ing --> carrying 21. p. 217, kipnapping --> kidnapping 22. p. 218, discouragments --> discouragements 23. p. 218, apointment --> appointment 24. p. 219, prepetrators --> perpetrators 25. p. 220, portentious --> portentous 26. p. 223, communciation --> communication 27. p. 225, cirumstances --> circumstances 28. p. 226, beseeech --> beseech 29. p. 231, sperations --> separations 30. p. 249, beautful --> beautiful 31. p. 259, ben --> been 32. p. 270, There were two references to footnote #15. The second has been duplicated and labelled #15a. 33. p. 284, There were two references to footnote #37. The second has been duplicated and labelled #37a. 34. p. 315, ineficient --> inefficient 35. p. 316, perserving --> persevering 36. p. 316, society --> society, (added comma) 37. p. 319, There was no section VII in the original. 38. p. 325, trival --> trivial 39. p. 329, Contiment --> Continent 40. p. 331, if proportionably --> is proportionably 41. p. 335, penalities --> penalties 42. p. 336, exisiting --> existing 43. p. 333, now shall --> nor shall 44. p. 344, If has since --> It has since 45. p. 351, so satisfactory result --> no satisfactory result 46. p. 366, artifical --> artificial 47. p. 385, No footnote marker for footnote #2. 48. p. 405, No footnote marker for footnotes #38, #39, #40. 49. p. 426, No footnote marker for footnote #82. 50. p. 450, No footnote marker for footnotes #136, #137. 51. p. 452, Footnote #143 renumbered to #142 52. p. 453, Footnote #142 renumbered to #143 53. p. 468, No footnote marker for footnote #169. 54. p. 487, futhermore --> furthermore 55. p. 489, litttle --> little