Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-12-21
UNCLE GID'S LETTER.


Your nice little paper came in on
time, the third one ever saw and the
only oneI could call my own. l have
scanned its columns and | find that |
have fallen in good company for fact.
That fellow who calls himself ''Jol-
ly'' is fit subject for the lunatic asy-
lum, for he does not realize what he
is doing. He wants some good union
man to tell him what black leg is.
Well, I'll tell him-a cheat and a
fraud, His very letter to the News
confirms that answer, for he is a
fraud. He boasts of getting more than
the union got for coal, therefore he Is
cheat Let the union die and be no
more and then what would he get?
How was it before the union was Or
ganizedS He calls union men ''Bush-
whackers Doesn't he know they
are no such thingf Doesn't he know
the best truest and most honorable
men in mining camp always belong
to labor organization. He says he
worked in several union camps and
never belonged to it yet, but he didn't
tell the reason. Sometimes men get so
low down they can't get into any
thing, and / expect that is his case
He harps upon foreigners being at the
head of the union. Why, yes, I've
heard the company put in that object
ion myself: "The men are all right
except Vasey. Bowden and Fairly"
Well, jolly, did you ever hear the COM
pany say they preferred, their old
miners and wanted them in preference
to your sort2 / have and not 20 days
ago. They are only using your kind
for purpose and some day will drop
all your sort like hot potatoes, and did
you know that strike breakers no where
have ever been able to hold their
places after peace was declaredg No
difference whether the union wins or
looses you and your kind are out.
J That is the history of all strike break
ers, and further did you know that a
company that will wrong one set of
workmen will wrong you when it
suits their convenience to do so. Fur
ther, any working man who will aid
or abet company to over awe and
subdue its employees is a traitor and a
renegade and nobody likes them ever
afterwards. Going against your own
/ class and kind is something no intelli-
r gent thinking man will do in or out of
the union. Why, the old man has been
an outsider through this lockout, and
you fellows can't look me square in the
! face. You everyone have hang dog
look, you feel mean and you know you
are doing wrong.
You say the union can't expect to
get settlement and act like they have.
What proof have you of their wrong
doing? Trot her out Don't you know
your kind have put in the most of your
1 I time lying on the union. l know, sir,
: your gang did the shooting at Tracy
I City night or so before the soldiers
e left, and claimed the union did, but
n eye-witnesses said they didn't. Youl
gang, like all strike breakers, are like
ly to fill Marion and Grundy counties
jails yet. Everybody is watching YOU
conduct. They are catching on to youl
lawlessness after so long time. Th'
people begin to see your hellishness
q The ball that killed Robertson is likel.
to have come from gun in the hand
J. of one of your sort. Don't be too sure
Your schemes are coming to naught
u my friend. A true old detective is nos
Il ing around and he is not as easily fool
ed as you may infer He'll find tn
n gun. And then you see, Jolly, homes
men fear our county is confronting
= problem that will be wearisome ant
there is no chance to evade or dodg
ID it. The people are honest and whe
such as you undertake to blind then
% you'v We quite big job.
Cox won't be governor if nominated
He is too easily fooled. Bob Taylo
X should be defeated. l don't see ho'
g, any man who loves the sanctity
n. home can vote for him. / can't fgf
I Reed Smoot and vote for Bob Taylor
es am for Carmack for governor. "
always been a Democrat but this stat
ly needs change Union labor shoul
cause a change for luck.
u Well, things are not what the
% ought to be. My respects to yo'
,,s household. Write often and be sure
tell the truth, Jolly.
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