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Out of Frying PanInto Heal Hot Firei at or* I sivel race, ropoAi chur • than! Tt(By Associated Negro Press.) | spee NEW YORK, N. Y . Sept. 3.—Roths* j Chai child Francis, a West Indian and mem*' arm; her of St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) : Negi legislature, addressed an audience of busii about 250 persons last night at a|a pi Negro church at 55 W. 138th street on , arao the subject of the conditions of the YouiIt*ropotakiiNegro race in the Virgin Islands.The • speaker said that conditions were so bad there that the black man was little better than a slave. More ! it w ^than 8,000 Negroes, he said, had left \ pror ihe islands and migrated to this country in the last few years.Mr. Francis said that he had recently appeared before the foreign rela- {thei tlons committee of the senate and had ’ pric discussed the situatiou with it. He! holdIthe8UCCto esaid that he bad been promised that a bill would be introduced providing that three senators and three member* of. the bouse of representatives j IJe should be sent to investigate coadi cap: tions io the islands.Mr. Francis said the inhabitants wanted a reorganization of their judiciary and school systems after theestaDfallAmerican' plan * reelt;
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Phoenix Tribune
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Sat, Sep 06, 1919
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