Some successful establishments are conducted with negro labor but the labor force is either all white or all black except that white overseers are always, or nearly always employed.
An important hindrance in the way of the success of negroes in these occupations is their characteristic dislike of regularity and punctuality.
As the negro has acquired these virtues to some extent at least in the tobacco industry, there seems to be no reason to suppose that in time he may not succeed also in textiles, in which the work is not more difficult than in other tasks of which negroes have proved themselves capable.

So far the whites have not resented the occasional introduction of black operatives into the textile industry.

If the negroes become firmly established while the demand for operatives continues to be greater than the supply, race friction on this account is unlikely, but if they are introduced in the future as strikebreakers, trouble is sure to arise.

In the mines, blast furnaces, oil mills, and fertilizer factories the negroes do the hardest and most unpleasant tasks, work which in the North is done by recent immigrants.
The negroes are almost entirely unorganized and are likely to remain so for a long time.

Few negroes accumulate funds enough to indulge in the luxury of a strike, and they have shown little tendency to organize or support unions.