However, their devotion to their lodges shows the loyalty of which they are capable, and their future organization is not beyond the range of possibility.

Generally the South has afforded little encouragement to organized labor.

Even the white workers, except in the cities and in a few skilled trades, have shown until recently little tendency to organize.

In the towns and villages they are not sharply differentiated from the other elements of the population.

They look upon themselves as citizens rather than as members of the laboring class.
Except in a few of the larger towns one does not hear of "class conflict"; and the "labor vote," when by any chance a Socialist or a labor candidate is nominated, is not large enough to be a factor in the result.
During 1918 and 1919, however, renewed efforts to organize Southern labor met with some success particularly in textile and woodworking establishments, though the tobacco industry and public utilities were likewise affected.