Colored Alliance Demands, 1889

From the Atlanta Constitution, September 11, 1889.

A Colored Alliance at Work.

From the Walton, Ga., News.

A negro county alliance convention met at Monroe, in this state, on Saturday last and adopted resolutions in effect as follows: They pledge themselves not to pick or allow any of their family or any person they can control to pick a lock of cotton for any person, under any circumstances, for less than seventy-five cents per hundred. Second, that they will work for no person for less than $1 per day in the winter and $1.25 in the summer, and to work only eight hours per day. Third, that they recommend the grand jury to find true bills against every "colored person" who loafs about town and send him to the county to farming. They also adopted a penalty for the violation of their pledges, but exactly what it was could not be learned. This movement has caused some agitation about Monroe, and it is feared that it will cause an unpleasant conflict between the white and colored alliances.