LABOR CONDITIONS The laborer employed in the manufacturing enterprises of the South, whether white or black, is native born and Southern born.

Sporadic efforts to import industrial workers from Europe have not been successful and there has been no considerable influx of workers from other sections of the Union.

A few skilled workers have come, but the rank and file in all the factories and shops were born in the State in which they work or in a neighboring State.

Speaking broadly, those dealing with complicated machines are white, while those engaged in simpler processes are white or black.

We find, therefore, a preponderance of whites in the textile industries and in the shops producing articles from wood and iron, while the blacks are found in the lumber industry, in the tobacco factories, in the mines, and at the blast furnaces.