Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-12-21
GLEN MARY. TENN.

Vim. Fairchild, while standing at
the rear end of the dinky at Carsons
mines, three miles south of this place,
Thursday morning, was accidentally
caught between the dinky and trip of
mining cars. Both of his legs were
broken about the ankles. Dr. Car, of
this place was summoned and, upon
arriving, found that both legs would
have to be amputated below the knees
and he was thereupon removed Fri
day morning to Chattanooga for the
operation to be performed.
Ye writer went to Glen Mary the
other day to see the Cannon Ball. She
certainly makes time | was told by
one of the firemen that the indicators
on the fast mails register IA miles an
hour while passing Glen Mary. No. q
North Bound Cannon Ball is due at
1857 a. m. and No. l, South Bound,
is due at 1918, p. m.
John Parson and negro were engag-
ed in little scrap Sunday but learn
that nobody was hurt except the negro
who was knocked down. The difficult
| ty grew out of the negro trying to Dor
row a gun from Parson and upon be-
ing refused made fight at Parsons.
Toney Davis interferred and that put
stop to it.
Steve Douglass, the book keeper for
the G. M. G. c. Co., left Saturday ev-
ening for Hartman, and returned
Monday morning to his place of bust
ness in the Office. Mr.. Douglass is GER
| tainly hustler and an up to date book
| keeper.
l saw Thomas Hughes returning from
Carson few days ago. and l have
learned since that he has leased the
Carson mines and will take charge of
them some time in the near future.
Well, Mr.. Editor, / notice from d
correspondent of the News that they
are getting better wages now at Whit
we'll than the union asked for, or bet
ter wages than the union men ever got
under the U. M. w. of A. Now, if
\ that be so | would like for some good,
sensible person to tell me why the
company is hostile to the organiza-
ton. 1t certainly isn't for the sake OF
dollars and cents. The writer of that
article must have been the third man.
I notice from an official report that
there is paid up membership of 304,
900 United Mine Workers at the close
of November, 1905, Taking in consid
Grafton those who are month or SO il
arrears there are approximately 95 pei
J cent of the eligible persons in good
standing. With those out ON strikes
and locked out and exonerated from
J various causes counted in, the mem
} bership approaches closely the 400, OO(
mark, or in other words, about two
thirds of the men working in ani
J around the mines are members of tn,
; United Mine Workers of America
Now, we will look at it in anothel
J light. Every two men are holding III
for the wages and conditions of thu
J third man to the shame of the thir(
man be it said. Let the third man ge
into line and strikes and lock-outs vii
be thing of the past. If this goes tt
} press it might be a little encouragin.
to some people. Again the same writ
er wanted some good union man t.
tell him what scab is. If there il
anybody knows more about a scab thai
he does | presume it is one that hai
been in the business longer than him
self He also spoke about the othe
men paying extra assessments to feeC
those people down there on strike
There was an extra assessment put OF
sometime this year to the sum of Il
cents. Now, let's see who is payin.
that 10 cent levy. | am working at
place where before the miners were or
ganized, we received Csc per ton TO
coal run over an IA inch screen, ant
, now we receive from S3 1-3c per ton t,
SO 1-3c per ton run over an IA incl
screen. Now, to take into considera
ton the differences in the screens w
are receiving over one dollar per tol
for coal that we got 65c for before, o
in other words, we are working at al
advance of 35c per ton, if not littl
more. So, you see, if l only LOADED
one ton of coal per month the advanc
on that one ton would pay the extr;
assessment and still leave me 25c TO
the staff of life-that's Arbuckle.
| guess since / have made my lette
very lengthy and thereby might hav
infringed upon a space for some on
else, | had better ring off for this tim
with a promise to come again if thi
, misses the waste basket. Wishin!
the News and all its readers good luck
| remain as ever,
Far Away David.