Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-04-04
UNION VS.. N0N.UNION.

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see a great deal of good The non.un-
ion has worked against the union and
against the will of God. Listen 70
this. 1t is God S word. Malachi Ak
'sAnd will come near to you To indce,
ment and / will be swift Witness
against the sorcerers and against tbo
adulterers and against false swearars
and against those that Cypress the hire
ling in his wages, the widow and tba
fatherless and that turn aside the
stranger from his right and fear not
me. saith the Lord of Hosts" man
cannot live christian life if he il NOT
n union man. Take the Bible NOT INV
word, A man can be union if he has
principles and cares for himself. If
Won have to force man into ANYTHING
You had better let him stay out. for Il
he has to be forced to do it he will no
tray you the tirst chance he gets. 1t
don't take the church to make a chris
tan, but the whole desire Of his heart.
his walks and talks and ways in every
respect and union with everyone.
The same way by the union. If a
man is a union man he don't have TO
Join the United Mine Workers to make
him one. 1t only joins them together
bv their oath as one body and when n
man holds up his hand and takes that
oath they had as well break the oath
administered by a Squire.
Now, when we were digging coal at
Whitwell and could not hardly keen
something to eat, wages were low with
half day runs, and everything in the
store was just high enough to consume
what we made except a few that had
contracts, Then we organized and
gained little at time until we got
days shorter than they were and wages
to what they are. If organization is
no good what makes all companies or
ganize? They could not control their,
business if they were not organized.
Then they kick if labor is organized
and whyY They know know that they
are the best to control and have no
trouble with, but they cannot force
them into measures like they can the
non-union. They can make non union
men do as they wish or leave. It can't
be Investigated to see who is in fault,
the non-union man or the company.
He Just has to go or be driven like a
convict That is the way these com
panies want to do the laboring man.
and you may do away with the union
and in five years you will dig coal for
one dollar a day when the same coal
you are digging is selling in Chatta-
nooga for 3d. 80 per ton to the consum-
er. Now, look at your price now paid
for digging coal at Whitwell and the
price before the union was organized,
3715 cents, and then you can see for
yourself. The reason that some do not
see is because they do not want to see.
It is the rich man in front. If | had
the money | could prove white man
black. 1t is the money that has caus-
ed many man hung when he was
not guilty. Last year in Grundy coun-
| ty the non-uniOn people gathered at
Altamont, even women, trying to in
dict the union men at Tracy. lido not
believe that there is union man on
earth, but what is for right and the
upbuilding of our country, and good
will to all men. A christian hearted
man has no malice against his fellow
man, but assists him in everything he
can for his principle is good and not
evil. i see that Clyde Griffith has one
| friend who liked the piece he wrote to
the News. 1t must be someone that
does not know what is right or what is
wrong, or else does not care for their
welfare in this world nor in the world
to come, or they would not appreciate
such mistakes made by one who wears
mems clothing. "Clydes Friend, :"
read st. Mathew 25ch; read Zachariah
| 1922, For the idols have shone vanity
and the OWNERS have seen "a lie and
have told false dreams. They comfort
in vain, therefore they went their
way. AS flock they were troubled
because there was no Shepherd. -
Where is the non-union leader? The
company or whom? am afraid it is
not anything for the upbuilding of our
country, If labor ever does any good
they will have to put shoulders to-
gether and all be as one. Then they
can rule their part. | hope that every
miner will see as the two ''Heartbrok-
en- Miners" Tracy City Repent and
come out from among them for if
kill man and you are with me they
will say that had something to do in
the killing too. / say for all union
men to work at union mines and not
bother the non-union. Let them get
their price as low as they can. l heard
J a man say that he was union man,
but it would not do to talk it. l am
not on the fence, ready to fall with
the big crowd. | am a union man,
and do not care who knows it. | hope
all the union people will see the
way they are drifting and come over
and shake hands with the union, obi
gate themselves and be for right an(
the upbuilding of our country.