Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-11-28
BUNKER MILL.

Sbeciolto NE Nl7ss.
Well, Mr.. Editor, We writer hurt the
feelings of a lady on the mountain at
Whitwell. because he wrote the truth
and nothing else, but the the truth,
but if the truth kills they will have to
die because | preach nothing else.
She said that We writer ought to be
bushwhacked. OF course we have peo-
pie all over the world that have not
got grit enough to come up to mans
face, but will bushwhack him, but this
is not union principle. and no chris
tian will take such talk. OF course
we see that Christ was killed by such
people for telling the truth, but if we
writer has to die for telling the truth,
he will keep telling it. So here comes
some more
| was in Whitwell pay day and can
safely say | never saw as many men or
boys that were called miners, not old
enough TO have moustache No won
der that Whitwell has run down.
Common sense will teach a. man that
IL takes practical local miners to run
coal mines, not farmers or boys. do
not believe that there is over thirty or
forty practical coal diggers in Whit
we at work. / watched to see.
Now, do not see why the I. G. Il
4 ], Co. can see their ruination. 1t is
just because they have men for bosses
that want to have everything their
way and will not work union men I'M
! less they will degrade themselves low
enough to sign their rights and privil-
eyes away to the company before they
can get work, This system is worse
than a slave ever had to endure.
/ They have cut wages at Whitwell.
Henry Kilgore says that they cut him
ten dollars on the month, and some
others as high as fifteen dollars ON the
month and some less. The contract
ors are doing very well, so they say.
Of course it is this way. If a man
don't know what he ought to make
and draws close to a hundred dollars
for his work and his labors he thinks
he has drawn big pay, but it ought to
be twice as much. Then he is getting
near what he ought to draw.
1t is just like heard man say the
other day, give some people sewing
machine and jackass and they are
too rich to go to see their sister and
her sick and in sight of each other
OF course We writer is a union man
from top to bottom, a yard wide and
all blue. have lived among union
men and my wife raised a heap of
chickens. They went from house to
house but those good union men did
not steal my chickens, If they are sc
mean they always treated me well. Sc
well that do not think union man
would do the like. Now, | am not
throwing a rock at anyone that il
J doesn't hit. do not do such bust.
ness | wish everybody well, and
am glad the company have elected new
officers to the board, and also glad the
: new company has taken hold as we
have their reputation and it is gooC
one. s.. y .H .-
met Tom Henson in Whitwell. HI
told me he and his two boys would mo-
60 in the mines for less than $t0 on
per day when they worked. Also saw
John Cowen, Bro. Lo Smith, Bro
Mat Griffith and several others O
) Whitwell. They are old friends and
was glad to SEES them faithful to til,
end. The time is now at hand wheI
they shall reap their reward for thu
upbuilding of our counry. When un
ion labor takes hold all over our coun
try you will see coke ovens smoking
furnaces that are now dead fired ant
running You will see coal cars run
ming up and down the mountain al
fast as they can be loaded The squeeze
will be driven through to where Goa
is and no changes merely to make /,
show of coal, but if man hits
squeeze and don't know how to ge
through it he does not need place.
Uncle Blue.
{