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HE’S A MANWho labors under the delusion that a great majority of the colored folk of this country are devoid of real manhood and will take any kind of treatment that an overprejudiced white person may hand out to them, if by so doing they can hold on to a more or less lucrative job, has a think coming. When the Seattle butchers went out on a strike quite a few colored men and women were given employment at the slaughter houses and especially at Frye Co. For a few days all went well as a marriage bell, but at the first pay day the colored women say the white women were paid from $2 to $3 apiece more than the colored women. No, the colored women made no holler or demonstration, but none of them showed up for work the next Monday. The colored men took to the work like ducks to water and their adaptability was highly complimented by the management. The men were paid so much per day, with board and lodging, and black and white were treated just the same. But Gen. Negrophobia got busy and the colored men were told to take seats at a table in one corner of the dining room, thereby establishing segregation. They refused to accept the accommodations and complained to the general management, but his mind had been poisoned and he would give no relief and so forty in number asked for their
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Seattle Caytons Weekly
Seattle, Washington, US
Sat, Mar 02, 1918
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