Diminishing yearly.
Q.You mean that immigration from Europe is being employed on the plantations?
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Not exactly upon the large cotton plantations, but the smaller plantations are now being converted into farms.

For instance, there has been a large immigration of European emigrants into that section of the country between Little Rock and Fort Smith.
Q.Do they, upon these farm or small plantations being converted into farms, work in companionship with the negro laborer?
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No; they generally buy the land and work it themselves; they may hire a negro and work with him; they are laborers themselves.
Q.Is there any tendency among the white and colored laborers of any class to work in companionship, or to fraternize at all in labor?
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I cannot say that there is.