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ITALIAN V8 NEGBO LABOB.The experiment of substituting Italian for negro labor in the cotton j and cane fields of Louisiana is meet- | ing with considerable success. Up to a few years ago negroes did most of the work in Louisiana. Italians were first used in the cane fields, and there found to be more satisfactory than the unreliable negro; later they were put into the cotton fields ; some have been tried on the rice plantations ; many are now used in the salt mines among the islands of the southwestern coast; and in the orange belt of the lower coast the experiment, * also tried. Lastfall, at the time that the negroroustabouts at New Orleans struck for a rise from $75 to $120 per month, with board and lodging on boat, the steamboat agents secured several hundred newly imported Italians und put them to work. Now there isscarcely a steamboat plying at NewOrleans that does not carry an Italian crew, at least in part. Though the negroes protested vigorously, they finally accepted the inevitable by shipping with Italian crews.— Nashville Christian AdvocateI
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The Progressive Farmer
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Tue, Apr 16, 1901
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