Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-09-26
The Future of Unionism Is: The South
will Be Organized AS Is The North.

First, we find labor divided in its
own rank, touching the question of
Unionism.
Second, we find capitalists divided
as to the expediency of working union
labor.
These two propositions will have
some solution.
What will be the final result of this
industrial war among capitalist and Ia
Dor uniOnistr
1t is common parlance among great
many, that the future will bring on a
civil war between capital and labor.
This is only fancy so far as actual
war is concerned. There now exists a
peaceful war between one class of cap
ital and union labor all over the I'M
tied States, and its unrelentless raging
does not cease The more turbulent
the conflict the more intense becomes
the faith of the union membership.
The more privations it's membership
experiences, the more confirmed be-
comes their faith in their united act
ion The lockout system is only test
gage for union labor. The loyalty to
principle is the only hope for justice.
A great many union men never real
ize what is required to win an indus
trial battle until they are locked out
and driven from pillow to post.
Members of family many times
never realize the enjoyment of home
life, until they are severed by parental
strife and discord, and no family can
enjoy life and succeed in business with
a breach of discord reigning over them
and severing their unity.
Just so with corporation that has
set up standard of discord among its
employees.
A family reunion brings enjoyment,
happiness and prosperity, and the only
! known solution for capital and labor
in the midst of these chickering's, is to
bring about reunion among its en-
ployees. Unionism stands with out
stretched arms, beckoning to the mar
row-minded capitalist, and saying,
"Come, give me your heart and hand
and we will walk down the stream of
industrial vicissitude hand in hand,
and we not you-will defy the world
to impede our progress.
Oh, one says, we will by the power
of might surmount all difficulties,
rend in twain all opposition, strew the
desert of want with our victims, and
by devilish stubbornness trample un-
der foot all opposition. Yes, and sur
mount the climax of the goal of vic.
tory with an empty treasury.
| was reading the other day an ac
count of hunter in the East Indies
who was travelling along large river
and coming up near the stream ht
spied large rhinocerous drinking al
the waters edge, and upon turning tt
go away, a large crocodile seized thu
beast by the hind foot. There began
Immediately an heroic struggle for su
premacy, which lasted for an hour
Eventually the rhonocerOus reluctantl,
surrendered his great superiority t.
be dragged under water for the feas
of the crocodile. There is limit t.
physical endurance and there is limi
to financial capacity.
Action and reaction in nature is th
same, and this is true of human ma
ture.
, The leaders who hold the purs
! strings of the capitalist are no NOR
, constant and enduring than are tn
leaders of labor, who represent th
> combined muscle of the most eXperier
1 ced workmen. So with the peacefr
$ war well on, the tendency is only t
. increase the cost price of the produC
J, and increase the demand for MOI
workmen, each of which, like rust
will wear out an iron man and test til
capacity of capital. 1t is Just as ei
l' sential for large vessel to have
,e smooth sea for easy sailing as sma
u one.
/ There is nothing that will diffu,
and spread uniOnlsm more than striI
and agitation, and who is more r.
sponsible for this than the capital
who assumes a rule or ruin polio,
70 There is nothing in my mind that hi
spread the principle of unionis
u more in the south in the last three
I'd four years, than the lockout institute
g by the four furnace companies in AL
bama.
'ee The prosecution of Haywood, Mo
I'd er, and Pettibone out in Idaho, h
le been the means of adding to the Yves
ern Federation of Miners 90, 600 mel
at bers.
1t is Just as impossible for the tru
7, to drive ont UniOnism as it is for the
y to keep men of small capital from G
I ing into business. If the trusts cou
keep small operators from going in
g. business, then united action of t
trusts would after a while wipe o
ss uniOnism.
During the last four years have n
ed seen or heard of any union man, NJ
withstanding the way they have be
at treated, who has lost faith in the Z
tied Mine Workers organization b
Is on the contrary, they believe when t
company reduces wages, and brin
back conditions like existed prior
the organization, the men who are
work will be just as anxious and e
he thusiastic for the organization as I
r. union men.
lis The T. G. /. Co. at Whitwell ha
at never reaped the reward of their strU
NJ gle here Their output is short a
he they have to pay practically union v
ges, and then are short on labor.
The following is an extract from I
writings Of an observer of no SIN
mien, Mr. Eckles. who states that
ay would be better to unionize the ent
tn Birmingham district if this wOl
lss furnish ample labor supply, than
ug continue as now with a shortage.
ife think it would be in order for
IS, 7. g. |. Co. to announce a "ho
coming" and have a family reuni,
make ample spread of viands and ce
brate the home coming.