ABSTRACT
The colored people would work earnestly, and give good satisfaction until they got a little money ahead, and got food enough assured to last them two or three weeks; then they would give up the job, or simply remain away from the factory until others had been put in their places. Then there was complaint of a general lack of perseverance, of an unwillingness to be steady, to put money into the bank, to begin at the bottom and gradually work toward the top. Wherever the people are not getting regular, paying employment, it is largely on account of the things of which the author have been speaking; and gradually the opportunities for employment are slipping into the hands of the people of other races. Some come with a strong determination to work, and stay until something happens that is not quite pleasant, and then they want to leave and go to some other school or go back home.
