Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-07-16
BeIIeyille, III.

Speciai 10 tie Neggs.
Today the Shiloh mines are not
working, so l am idle and will write
so the folks in Alabama won't think
that | am dead. ! don't read the News
now. Our time is out reckon, as we
have not got the paper for sometime.
When decide what to do or where |
will stay, then You wilksee my name
in the paper where it says watch Us
Grow
got letter from home and the un
ion had struck the Birmingham dis
trict like a cyclone The boys can
pick berries now. pitch dollars and
play kitty and fish and hunt and
some can go to see their best girls ex-
cept one day in each week. On that
day they draw grub and help wash, SO
their girls can strike, too. would love
to be there although have strayed too
far this time to walk back and will
stay until after next payday. Men
could do all right here if they worked
regularly. This is union strictly. 1t
has come to where working men will
have to stick together or starve., | am
glad that the non-union men have got
their eyes open. l was in one strike
for about three years and have not got
one stain on me. though / will speak
we'll for the company at home. The
place was never organized until few
days ago. 1t was new place and the
superintendent and mine foreman tried
to treat us white. / never felt vexed
except one time, and that was when
they would not pay for that big rock |
handled. I hope the union will stay
together until they win the day. Then
all will be brother workers together,
not union and non-union men. All
will be of the same family. / hope
that all men will stand like good sold
iers and bear the cross to wear the
crown, or to not be frowned down all
their lives. Some men say, we have
to work and that God only promised
us bread. Let us stand together to
get more than bread, and let every
man watch and see that each and every
local is carried on fair and square, and
that each one has its part of the grub
and is treated right. Don't forget
that, boys. Be like brothers. stay to-
gether, work together, eat together
and when the whole state stands in
unity together something will, happen.
It may be that will be with them be-
fore it ends.
Tell "Fat Bill and wife that | am
at Bellville, ILL., mean to go to Mis-
souri, before I come back home. will
tell one objection have to this town.
Those horseless carriages. They work
the mules father to light buggy and
the little boys and girls get astride Of
something, ard off they go, and /
have to get out of the way. This
place is mostly inhabited by Germans
and / can't understand their language,
so feel lonely. When the sun rises it
seems like it is in the wrong place.
Tell Mrs. Davis l will come to see her
sometime / would love to see Dolly
Jones this morning J. S. Jones stays
here. He says he is glad to know that
there are so many union men in Ala
bama and hopes they will be true to
God and the union and one another
Boys, take the News and then
Watch Us Grow. The News is like
a letter from home, and am glad to
see it every time. | would love to see
my wife and those in Alabama that
are near to me. The Empire writer
must not think that / want to be di-
vorced.. Bonny Boy.