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DEMAND FOR NEGRO LABOR
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bank check or the draft that he gets in payment for his goods. Most of this thing we call a race question is down at rock bottom a labor question.

"When the colored man can come into the labor market and bargain for the sale of his services on the same terms as other workers, a great deal of what is termed to-day the 'race question' is going to be settled."