Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-07-12

orderly conduct, burningg of tipples,
killings, shootings and turning of con-
victs loose in 1892, etc. To all these
charges the United Mine Workers Of
America pleads not guilty.
If the T. G. ]. & r. r. Co. will
Jointly cooperate with the y. NJ. w
of A. to establish law and order at
these mining camps am sure affairs
can be exceedingly improved, Let
them, the companies. quit selling or
furnishing firearms and whiskey; let
them quit bringing in a lot OF un-
knowns; let them quit being SO ready
to stand bond for men who have been
guilty of willfully and maliciously vi
Olating the law, and this in itself will
help considerably to restore order.
We know that during time Of in
dustrial conflict such as is going on at
Whitwell and Tracy City that any
lawlessness or disorder occurring is
largely charged to the union. In fact
very many acts of violence, ETC., have
been charged to the union that they
have been entirely ignorant of, and
the guilty parties knew before COM
mitting the deed or deeds that because
of existing industrial conflict it would
be charged to the strikers, or men lock-
ed out whether they were union or
otherwise.
| Another feature worthy of passing
consideration is that the union has
lost small per cent. of their once
union men at both places (say about
fifty out of the nearly twelve hundred. J
Among these are some who had been
| "a. l. nd
their falling away buoyed the company
up with false hope. The company
would NATURALLY conclude that if the
union local leaders would themselves
break ranks, then the rank and file
would soon follow. This has not, no1
is it likely to occur. Among those who
have broken rank are some the union
has done the most for, together with
some who were the most radical of the
union; and strange as it may appear
they are those whom the company
would not under any circumstances
employ in or about their works on ac'
count of their radicalism. The mo
ment these men denounced their un
ion, however, regardless of radicalisn
or other Objectionable features, they
Immediately became suitable charact
ers for employment. It's not the un
ion men the company objects to, many
of these men they would like to have
very much. In fact the greatest sur
prise to the company has been, an(
now is, the tenacity with which thu
men have held on to their union. The.
hold today. THEY INTEND TO
AND WILL HOLD. No, it is the Un
ion and not the men that the compan,
objects to, the proof of this is the com
pany's readiness to employ any desert
er the union may have.
Referring to the incendiarism ant
turning convicts loose, there of 1892
there was no union there at that tim
and consequently the union could no
have been responsible for it. W
know that men who are now working
for the company, who were non -uniol
men then and are non-uniOn men now
have told and can now tell some inter
esting tales relative to that affair
hence this again proves that it is tn
union, not the men, that are objection
able to the company.
One of these travelling men said tina
if a union man asked him not to wor
,, he would shoot him down like a dog
Let us consider for moment that i
the event union miners were askin
men to refrain from going to wor
(which we believe we have right t
do under such Circumstances, in pei
Z suasive manner) and which we believ
| the higher courts will grant rs whe
brought before them, which is th
: greater violation of Divine, moral {
civil law to ask, under Circumstances {
this kind and in persuasive manner,
3 : man to refrain from going to work, {
to shoot a man down like a dog, fl
so small an actY Answer for yourselve
Next week we will have somethir
to say in kindly manner to those no
. working in and about the mines
. Whitwell and Tracy City. l am,
!. Yours for right,