Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-03-15
WHY | AM A SCAB.

ItllLOI ANONp' ~ iAtbo bNCu quite "A
while since l have had time to write
to your paper. l have been working
both night and day since the fire, try
ing to fill as many places as I could.
The company wants us to fill every
notch we can. I've been asked why |
pursued such policy that would
lengthen the hours for each day and
nv children have to work longer hours
and for less pay. My answer is, life
is too short to battle for these things.
You may talk Of pure motives and
right ideals but l am for what I can
get out of this thing, am going to
follow my appetite instead of my con
science conscience don't feed me. I
had rather have full stomach any
time than a clear conscience.
Well, | have just moved and paid
my rent, and am situated so can give
little to writing my sentiments.
Some say they don't like to put out
coal when it is not weighed. | am
willing for company to either guess
at my weights or average my cars
trust in them and as my faith is so it
will be.
want our boys to hold up their
heads. don't want to see them going
around with their heads down If you
should see me or meet me, you would
see a man who holds his head up and
carries bright countenance and a
smile on his face. All the poverty and
rags and distress among the poor never
trouble my conscience or sympathy, l
see several of the union boys have been
arrested for trespassing. If they had
gone to work like l have they would
have the privilege Of picking up dead
wood and kindling, and should any of
the bosses discover us gathering up
this worthless stuff, they would say,
Take all you want We would be
glad to have all this rubbish removed {"
Since the union hasn't gone back to
work, it is visible to me that all big
legged mules and horses and bob-tailed
dogs, crumpled- cows, and even
the old fop-eared sows, casually go at
liberty around, outside of the T. c.
/. Cos property, but I see these people
called union people are not permitted
privileges of outside stock. am a
strong believer in liberty but | think
company's know best about how to ex-
tend it to the people.
/ am bitterly opposed to paying my
hard-earned money as dues in the I'M
ion, as much as SOC per month. be-
lieve statistics show that since the
union was organized miners wages
have increased 81 per cent, but I am
getting as much as if | were in the
organization.
Some of the union men think they
can spite me by calling me "scab. -
Now, there is but one call that evel
heed and that is when | am called tC
my meals. Our man, Roosevelt has
again committed very grave error il
, trying to avert a strike in the north
If we could break up the organization
up there, these 'sopp-suckers down here
would wilt, but there, Roosevelt is il
our way. / am going to quit the Re
publican party and join Parry's organ
ization, / am very much in favor o
! doing here what was done in Colorado
' just load these. union. people up il
t coke ears and export them into anothe
state and unload them This is n,
worse than having them ousted anC
' cat-hauled around every change of tn
-; moon, and then expectation would fin
ish it, If John I. Cox. is elected / be
lieve he will attend to this.
L It's being boosted by the union tina
t the company has failed to prove any
!. thing against their men. This seem
J, to be something like true | am sorr
' to say, although they have been trie
!, by their enemies. While the unto.
i can boast of the above. the non-uniol
+ can boast of something that is at leas
!, noteworthy, and that is we have ha
n three men killed by non-union people
i or murdered, if you should like it said
d and we can boast that we have dispo.
! ell of these cases without even disturb
:. ing the circuit court in anyway, an
these people were tried by thei
8 friends. | am a strong believer i
y prohibition. We got in on the trai
. Saturday night three negroes, fou
}, hugs and one negro preacher. While
am a prohibitionist find that but few
if any, Of our ministers condemn the'
things, and heartily endorse the
..I course. am a strong church memb'
ID. but don't think there is any harl
in paying express on whiskey an
.. standing good to Betterton for ehotig
81 to keep an Hands happy, 0dt gecp
It have scattered Of So much and 80 mar
"a gone away that, ! fndT orr IMPROVE
rifles are becoming very ,scafcs,, ! fe
nd safer when, can seSs lleh,ty of gins q
around IL donft ,beay55ssoI much, shoe
ing at night and / can't afford to ket
it all up myself, but have fallen on