Atlanta Daily World

Louisville (Ky.) Every few weeks something bobs up in Louisville to set Colored Louisville's tongues a-wagging. The latest yarn story in Wednesday's Courier Journal, in which J. J. McTighe coal operator and official of a coal company that sells a deal of coal to Colored concerns and individuals is quoted as asking the Director of Safety to arrest Negro men who will not work. He says coal operators cannot get Negroes to work more than two days a week. They live the rest of the time, he added, off the cold pans their wives bring from white folks' kitchens.

The Director of Safety is quoted he could not arrest them for not working but they could be arrested for vagrancy and begging nuisances and such.

This is significant thing for Director to imply arrest for vagrancy those who gather on street corners or elsewhere and discuss their plight?

Mr. McTighe does not tell that local coal dealers are the poorest pay of all big employers of Negro labor. The coal companies want freight cars unloaded but do not want to pay a man a decent wage for that back bending work. They want trucks loaded and coal delivered and want to pay very little not a few cents a ton or a bag.

Every idle Negro in Louisville is not capable of working on coal trucks or freight cars. Does he want them arrested? Does the Director want idle Negroes arrested who will not drive some trucks or empty coal freight cars?

As far as colored women bringing "cold pans" home, that is a thing of the past. Colored women working out in service get little pay and less food they eat on the place and none can be seen leaving with...