and better treatment. And no longer can the
South refuse to give it to him. For when the South refuses the
negro moves away. It's a national problem now, instead of a
sectional problem. And it has got to be solved.

The _New York Globe_[165] said that:

For more than a year a migration of men and women of color to
northern States has been going on that has already deprived
thousands of southern farmers of cheap labor. And the movement
bids fair to continue. That it will have both good and bad
effects is obvious. It will distribute the negro population
more evenly throughout the States and thus tend to diminish
race friction. But unless there is a change of spirit on the
part of northern unions, it will increase the danger of labor
troubles in case of industrial depression.

The Pittsburgh _Dispatch_[166] held that the migration was helping the
negro. It was of the opinion that:

This movement eastward and westward of unskilled negro labor
will both directly and indirectly help the negro. The younger
element, those of ambition and of some training in the
schools, will be constantly emerging from unskilled to the
semiskilled classes, with a consequent increase in their pay
rolls and a betterment in their methods of living.

A decidedly better treatment of the negro, both in the North
and the South, will grow out of the fact that the demand for
his labor has been limited and the supply unlimited.

In the spring of 1918 the Walla Walla, Washington, _Bulletin_[167]
summed up the situation thus:

There was much alarm a year or two ago over the migration of
negroes to the North in large numbers. It was felt that they
had far better stay in the South, in a familiar and congenial
environment, and keep on raising cotton and food, than crowd
into the inhospitable North for unaccustomed factory work. We
have heard less of that lately; it is still doubtful whether
the change is good for the negro himself, and there's no
question that his coming has complicated housing conditions
and social problems in northern cities. But economically the
matter appears in a new light. At a time when war industries
were starving for labor, the negro provided the labor. He is
recognized as a new industrial asset.

The migration has been unfortunate, to be sure, for the
communities thus deprived of agr