Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-09-24
Tracy City.
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Everything at Tracy City is low and
high and has been for some time. That
is, wages are as low as they can get,
and vegetables at the top notch Work
is six days a week here and | guess
will remain that way until spring A
man has got no freedom and no protec-
tion under the conditions they are
working in at this place. l will ex-
plain the reason to you. If the boss
don't do you right or don't measure
your dead work correctly or something
to that amount you can't help yourself
any. You Just have to do the best you
can, go back to work, or give up your
Job | want to say right here that
there are men in Tracy City that
would load coal at l2l2c a car, just to
have the name Of breaking strike
and to say, "Oh yes, | knowed we
would win some day. A man hasn't
got much principle that will do any
such business as that. A turn is set
before the men as an example and it
has to be worked out
Who is it that gets the profit? Not
the laboring class of people, but it is
the man that uses you as slave. You
don't get ten cents on the dollar, but
it is the man who sits back and smokes
cigars that gets the profit The COM
panies all know that the poor labor ing
class of people have got to work. The
company will come along here and say,
MIR. | want you to do so and so for
me. If you take the job he will Just
pay you what he wants to, and if you
don't take the job there will be some
one else that will take it, and that is
what keeps wages down so low that a
man can't make living. The COM
panies know that if they can t get one
man to work for them they can find
two or three that viii take the job.
You may pick the strike breakers
out and put them all together and put
them in the mines when there WASH t
a strike on hand to break, and they
wouldn't work four days week. 1t
is not the work that they want to do
| They Just think that the company
thinks more of them than anybody
else, when the company doesn't think
as much of them as they think. All
the company wants of men is just to
get what they make The company
gets nearly all they make 1t is a
strange thing to me that man will
try to down his own self as much as
anyone else. When men are trying tC
break strike there are men nibbline
after contracts and cream, but wher
our little contract plays out. then who
is it that gets the cream Why the
company gets the cream and the labor
ers get the whey, and it is not much
when they get it.
When the union men are out on I;
strike and the company tries to breal
strike, why is it the company want
to give out contracts? Simply becaus
the company wants men to jump at it
so they can bust up the union, if the,
can. hope will see the day whel
the companies will have to pay thei
men something to get them to worl
for them. There are men in ever,
mining camp that just want job TO
little while and it just suits men o
that kind to help break a strike, TO
they haven't much and don't wan
anything.
Well think Gov Conner has lost
good many friends by the way he ha
treated the miners in Alabama.
think they will never forget it.
J W. A. Jones, of Alabama, come on
and all of you good union boys writ
and let us hear from all
Yellow Jacket.