Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-05-21
BeIleviIIe, III.
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SpedGi Ofhe Nr7Os.
| worked five days last week and am
proud to get back to work. We have
practically the old scale for two years
more, although there is few minor
clauses which are changed, bur they
don't amount to much AS long as we
get the same price as before.
| got letter from Alabama last
week that made my temper go mp. l
learned by the letter that one of my
brothers got fired because he talked UNI
ionism. Now, that boss is excusible
for he must be one Of those fellows that
voted the way his uncle voted before
the war. What do you sensible people
think of that bet that boss don't
get over $50 per month and then
thinks he is going some, and if he was
to get fired would have to go to dig
ging coal. Perhaps he can't dig coal
but will work and do the dirty work
for the company for the sake of saying
II am the boss. You can't talk un-
ionism here. Why, | had chance to
be a pit boss in Ohio. l worked seven
days and saw it was too rotten for me,
so quit. The worst of it was | was
ashamed of myself for felt like | must
have looked crooked or the boss would
not have offered me the place, but
when | saw what he wanted done /
said, You had better see to that.
He asked me what got pay for, so l
told him if he expected me to be his
tool he could get man in my place,
so that was the end of my job. but
that same superintendent told me
Il 90 &oI b Ah,@ h. ..,l,
ed he had full crew like me. said,
Maybe you still think am square
head". But he said mo. | find by
experience that where there are all
good union men there is not much
trouble for they only ask what are
their just dues and when they ask
them they expect to get them and they
will tell you so to your face, while the
fellows that work non-union will
start something and almost break their
neck to tell the boss that someone else
did it" When it is summed up they
hold you until they get all the dirty
work out of you that they need and
then throw you down and think less of
you than they do of the fellowman who
won't do these tricks
If the boss speak of or anyone who
ever did such trick, don't like this
piece let him defend himself through
the News. If he shows me where he
was right, | will give in. l am "A un-
ion man for many reasons. feel sure
no non-unionman will ask these reas-
ons, for on the other hand would ask
him why he was not a union man and
he knows he could not give an intelli-
gent answer.
Now, bill Dooley, or 'Buttermilk
Johnny, of Birmingham, we are
working in the old style we used to
work six or seven years ago at Blue
Creek, Ala. If you want some more
of that kind of work just come to H.
linois. am expecting some of my
brothers and my father out here.
have jobs waiting for them and am
surprised that some have not arrived
yet, but hope 1t won't be long.
| will step into something here that
| don't know much about, but my idea
as to preachers salaries is that the
pastor has to live, SO he must get somt
money donated. As to the preacher
: who says, PAY me so much or | won't
preach, my private belief is that the
big dollar is calling him to preach in
stead of God who should call the
preacher.
Boys of Empire, Ala, you should be-
ashamed to have to be criticized al
you were in regard to respecting la
dies. l find in my travels that South
ern people are supposed to be the mos
mannerly and show the most respec
for ladies than people of any othe
part of the union. Warbler.