rom Chicago telling of
the wonderful openings for colored people, and I am asking you to
find the correct information whether I could get employment there
or not. Please find postage enclosed for immediate reply.

CHARLESTON, S. C., April 29, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ I saw your add in the Chicago Defender where you
wanted laborers and I taught that this would be a grand
oppotunity for me to better my present conditions so I taught I
would write you and ask you would you be kind enough as to give
me a job dear sir. I am a single man and would be willing to do
any kind of work, dear sir would you be kind enough as to forward
me a transportation and I would come write away so please do the
best you can for me. There is but little down here to be gotten
dear sir will you kindly grant me that favor. Hopeing to receive
a favorable answer.

GREENWOOD, S. C., May 8, 1917.

_Dear Friend:_ I saw in the Chicago Defender where you waned
labor. pleas send pass for as many men as you can are let me know
what I must do to get one by return mail because I wont to leave
the south and go north where you get a better chance. So please
answer at once.

SUMTER, S. C., May 12, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ Could you get me a job in the ---- Tin Plate Factory
at ----, Pa. a job for (3) three also a pass from here for (3) I
am a comon laborer and the other are the same. If you could we
will be ever so much ablige and will comply with your
advertisement. If you cant get a job just where we wish to go we
will thank you for a good job any where in the state of Pa. or
Ohio. I am in my 50 the others are my sons just in the bloom of
life and I would wish that you could find a place where we can
make a living and I also wish that you could find a place where
we all three can be together. If you will send us a pass we will
come just as soon as I receive it. If you find a place that you
can send us please let us hear what the job will pay. Nothing
more. I am yours respectfully.

CARRIER, MISS., May, 1917.

Please sir will you please send me transportation for me and my
wife I am willing to work anywhere you put me at the rate I am
going it would take