Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-06-18

elsewhere.
This is what honestly DO believe il
right and don't care who knows my
opinion on the labor question, | work
cd in the coal banks twenty years and
know where % dollar comes from.
When man goes in the bowels of tho
earth 10 earn ID he Is del rived of tha
fresh air, he is deprived of being with
father and mother he Is deprived II
his sweet little babes, he is deprived Ct
lots of the pleasures of this world and
it is impossible for him to enjoy it. If
there is a laboring class of people
which needs to be looked TO with on
eye of pity, it certainly II the man
who goes into the bowels of the earth
to make bread for his little children.
don't say anything and don't intend
to say anything bur what they are
paid the best wages possible for their
labor, but do think there never waa
a man who went into the bowels of
the earth who was paid enough for his
labor, and think the companies who
operate mines viii say so too
1t looks like the great man who sits
in his seat of happiness, who has his
face famed by his servent, would
wake up and look over this land and
see the pale faces of the poor laboring
class of miners. You can see poor
miner out on the street with his wife
He looks like ne might be worth ten
thousand dollars, but at the same time
he has not two weeks supplies in his
house, and probably he has been a
miner twenty tve-years.
| What has a poor miner got to show
| for his labor. The Good Book says IL
the blind lead the blind they will both
fall in the ditch together hope that
soon all working men can get price
for their labor and then they can enjoy
the fruits of their work What pleas
ure is it to man when he is absent
from his dear wife and little children
ten hours q day, nine in the mines
and one at the commissary to get his
pay for that days work, and when he
gets home he is SO tired his presence
worries the wife. So about the only
thing know for the poor miners to Go
is to get their hearts right with God.
/ think IT the company had all coal
diggers with good, honest hearts and
good clean consciences, that they
would pay more for their work. The
company don't want lazy or dissolute
men to go in the mines and work for
them. Most all companies want good
honest men, men who won't beat
them, men who won't steal, men who
it will do to sell bill of goods to on
time. | know what the good old COM
pany wants. That is the reason | like
them, and they like me- am as good
as my oath. That is the kind of men
they want. They don't want dishon-
est men. They want white hearted
| of ,hA -. 1n
something today, and something else
tomorrow. They don't want men who
can't do them any good. They want
men who make their homes happy.
This way of men trying to please them
by saying 50 and SO isn't the kind to
employ is good for nothing. The kind
of men who go over the companys
premises and talk of labor and talk
how it ought to be done is not thu
kind. Ii you ever want or intend to
get better job, keep your heart right.
The company wants honest men. They
don't want men who will tell You
what to do to beat them They want
men who will 40 the right thing. |
know they want to do right, and will
do right. / don't believe in making
the operator do anyway the miners say
, to do, but do think If the miners pull
J the cart don't overload him, pay him
l, for extra weight.
/, Now, somebody may say If the COM
,, pany was to pay for extra weight the
miners would at all times find plenty
to pull. Let the company get bosses
who can show the miners what to pull.
: say all miners ought .e work to save
the company as little expense as posi-
BILE. On the other hand, | say let the
company have rules and regulations
, and if man breaks them, let him off
of the job Let the company get boss
: es who will 90 justice to all men.
Don + get one who can be bought for a
7 glass of phosphate.
You can take all kinds of bosses and
! all kinds of men, and you will have
:. all kinds of a place and all kinds of
men in mine. Work, miners, to the
company's interest, and get them to
. see the point where they can make in
= crease by working good, honest men,
and men who can dig coal. / had
!. rather work in peace twenty per cent.
? less than to get everything stolen as
y soon as | leave my room, and | will if
God will permit me.
Think of the wrecked homes there
are today on account of working slack
. diggers and untaught miners, and on
q account of working unskilled miners.
> Look over the coal fields in Tennessee
y at the wrecked homes ON account of
the strike which was brought about in
! our land with many hundreds of little
7 children half -starved, half-naked, and
q deprived of getting their portion of
g schooling on account of the prejudice
4 of their parents towards each other
Now, toe thing is for the companies
= all to do the right thing for the men
y who toll for them and the laboring
= men should do right with the com
= pany. Have rules and go by them.
2 Settle for two or three years at time,
and if any man gets up strife between
men, send him down the road. Good
= men are the foundation of good
- place, and that is what all good people
II want that people may live in peace
? and harmony. BLUE RIBBON,
Tracy City, Tenn.
" Nature has provided the stomach with
|. certain natural fluids known as the di.
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