The Seattle Republican

WORTHLESS WORKERS.

In the Metal Worker, a weekly journal published in New York and Chicago, some very interesting facts are learned about the Negro as a moulder. They are not only interesting facts, but they should prove very salient lessons to the young Negro, who is coming forward in this day and generation to compete with his brother in white. Some twenty years ago it was thought by many of the operators of foundries in the South that the Negro promised to revolutionize foundry work throughout not only the South, but the entire United States. He seemed by nature an adept to the business, and, owing to the fact that he naturally lived cheaper than the white man, it was thought that those employed in foundries would soon become wealthy citizens from their earnings, but nineteen years of experience have proven far different than was anticipated, for the writer declares that at the present time there is but one foundry in the South that employs Negroes as moulders and this one does so more for policy's sake than for real merit. The reason that they are not given places as moulders, is that they do not do their work systematically nor do they ever learn the difference in the articles which they are moulding. So careless are they about their work that they are left completely out in this business. If the Negro of this age intends to compete in the working world he had better learn a lesson from this and practice punctuality and study the art of doing his work the most successful way, and whenever he has finished a piece of work, let it be done with neatness and dispatch and be able to favorably compare with that done by any other man, regardless of his nationality or lot in life, or he will never be more than a hewer of wood or a drawer of water. t: