Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-09-10
BeIleVille, III.
Special TO HE Mas.

Special TO HE Ne70S.
/ suppose you good old religious
strike breakers are well and enjoying
prosperity. You and the governor to-
gether have won your point, but who
is going to make the money out OF ltF
Not you You answer the same as a
shovel or a pick. When they are worn
out they are no good. The same with
you. They have won and you are worn
out until another strike. Of course
you can work but no more favors.
Boys, the time is coming when YOU
will think what a mistake you made,
for if you had not worked then the
company would not have had any ex'
cuse to get the soldiers. Then without
that dollar-loving Jay Hawk we
could win, but with the governor of
the state and militia guarding a lot Of
gentlemen while they mined coal for
the company to break the strike, 1T
was impossible. No men conld win
when gentlemen do such stunts as that.
Now, you strike breakers that were in
Alabama before the 1904 strike, know
what the wages were under that sys-
TEN, and | suppose your stomach or
appetite could tell the difference since
1904, if you depended on the coal min
ers for living altogether.
| saw where one of our wise guys
said, or words that meant the same,
that the union men who were on strike
in Alabama could not be christians
The Bible says, Judge not lest We be
judged by the same judge, ;" but | had
better cut the Bible out. | may make
mistake but permit one question,
do you think it is right to work
for small wages and see your little
children and wife go around half max
ed and hear the little fellows say they
haven't had enough to eat, and maybe
go to bed crying for bread and meat,
while their mother has schemed to
make the little wages run as far as
she can, and to make the bread and
meat last until she can buy more, for
she thinks it is better to have a little
every day than plenty one day and
none the next2 Now, there are people
in Alabama, as well as other states, in
that fix. Or, on the other hand, strike
for what is yours and let your union
brothers help You win what God put
here for you, by giving you and your
family plenty to eat. If | starved my
children it would be murder, in my
opinion.
Now, you good hardsbell democrats
and republicans ought to open your
eyes. 1t is time when your noble gov
ernor says you can't live in tents,
can't congregate for the purpose of
holding a meeting in your own behalf.
They did it once and will do it again.
Dom vote one particular way because
papa or Uncle John Henry did. If
you are old enough to vote, you don t
need him nor anyone else to tell you,
but get your thinking cap on and see
who you ought to vote for. Everyone
with horse sense knows the one that
the mOnied men vote for, is the one
you and | ought to vote against. The
democrats and republicans have done
these stunts all along to down the
working people.
One writer suggested that Lewis
start mines and do all these good
things. He can't do that, but if yor
and enough of the rest to make ma
iority vote, as 7. L. Lewis does You
can have things Strengthened up. Yor
know it would not be right to start
such mine and only employ some OF
the union. Why not all go together
and receive the same prosperity Yor
will probably say, Oh, they can't dc
that. How do you know they can't
You would have said two weeks age
that the Governor could not have youl
tents cut down, but he did. The only
way see to get your rights peaceably
is to elect Socialist to run this Ma
ton. When it is run according t.
their platform, we will all get what W,
produce, and not before. If you mel
in Alabama don't think this over nov
after having been treated as You have
there is no use in talking to you.
We haven't worked here this weel
but expect to work three or four day
next week, as Little Oak worked fou
this week. There have been fifteel
men quit Shiloh this week. Big jim
got chunk of coal on his back las
week, but nothing serious.
If 1t don rain here soon we viii
have dust explosion, as it is sho
mouth deep.
This is Labor Day and the unions
will all go on parade and have speak
ing and some have picnics. The or
phans at the Gleneta, which is st
Clair Cos orphans home, give Al
entertainment today. There are owe
900 children in this home.
There was some mistake as to whor
| am. l will say for the benfit of tn
Empire gentleman that | am not Al
thur Jones, but his brother,
NEWTON A. JONES