ABSTRACT
Perhaps no single event in the history of the American Negro has more engrossed the attention of social students than the 1916-24 migration of Negroes from the South to the North. The determinist wonders if this induction of the Negro into machine industry means the awakening of his economic class consciousness. The attention of the radical is not due to the interest a difference in color of human folk provokes, or simply. Because of the colossal increments of surplus labor that the agrarianism of a quasi-feudalistic South is, perforce its deficit economy, impelling toward the land of industry for work. Conservative Negroes as well as white radicals within the labor unions have called attention to this fact. The American Federation of Labor's partial recognition of the ineffectiveness of craft unionism in safeguarding the interests of modern industrial workers has resulted in the creation of departments and the extension of them so as to include certain types of unskilled workers.
