Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-02-13
Pryor Ridge.

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fo. AS ~ Is raining will scribble
work at Pryor Ridge has closed out
TOT while, owing to having no room
TO put the coal.
we are having more trouble at Tracy
City. The trouble is over tba dis
charging OF few men that belonged
" Ihe miner union. When this was
uohe strike was declared. 1t does
seem TO me that as we live in free
country That we ought to have the
right 10 belong to a secret order if we
WISH. III seems to me that the poor
iaDorlhg men all over the country are
tast getting into the conditions of the
slaves before the civil war. Some call
thls trouble capital and labor fight.
40 not look at it that way. | look at
II rs being labor against labor. If the
!aDorlng men would organize all labor
In one united order, then there would
De no one left out to take his neigh
boris job.
While l was at Whitwell the miners
struck and were fed by the order. The
union comprised about half of what
was working there. The outside men
had families and lots of them could not
get away so they had to have a living
ana were compelled to take work to
support their families. Now, if all la
Dor mad been organized into one order
there would not have been a single
man to blackleg and none would have
wanted to have done such thing, for
they would have had the benefit of the
1,1 Id
there VIII be contest between the Ia
boring classes. This is the way look
at 1t as all laboring men are generally
up against it and cannot live without
laboring. SO let there be an effort
made and if any man violates the
laws of the order exclude such a one
Tor life. 1t does seem that the mon
led classes have got to where they
think the poor ought to labor for them
, without price Labor is the life Of
any country and ought to be recogniz-
ed above all. We are taught in the
Bible that we shall live by the sweat
OF our face, but we do not get it now
The poor laborers and toilers get no
, living. When we get a settlement
with company for a Specified time at
a raise in wages, they go up on what
they sell TO gain the price of the rise
and call on all the men to give them
their trade.
Ye writer does not belong to any or
der, but if there was one that would
collect all labor in one order l surely
would be member.
The railroad will be graded in few
weeks, four or five at the furtherest.
| FThnrn a%
work around Pryor Ridge. They are
making very good money, as timber is
handy to the road.
Ye writer has to cough twice to
scribble once, as l have a bad cold.
| have coughed so hard that I have
bursted my shirt collar and still cough.
was looking over the News few
days ago, and saw in 'Watchman S
piece from Tatesville, that Mrs. Sallie
o Fultz had been visitor at that place.
a Ye writer sure would have been glad
= to have been there at that time.
was at NJ J. Shrum's yesterday
: and while there Miss Ollie Shrum ant
her two brothers, grandchildren of NJ
! j. Shrum, and Chester Burns tool
q dinner with him. | called at Monroe
! Nunley' S ON my way home, and had /
: talk with him which was very pleas
6 ant.
. Misses Hattie Rust, Katie Crisp
Rhoda Cope, Alice Harris and Esph!
9 Crisp paid Miss Maggie Nunley visi
q yesterday
y Frank johnson who has been staying
!, at NJ J. Shrum' for time, has gon
: to Coalmont to his brotner's, Will
= johnson. His health is no better bu
g we hope he will soon recover.
. Dan Green went to the Pocket yes
- terday to see his mother and brother
: and sisters, who live there. Dan still
:, claim that labor needs protection an
,. is standing in defence of labor.
:, 1t is said by some that the strik
y never was declared off. If not, whe
= they settled and went to work and tn
. company refused to let John Hall, I
= B. Landlord, L. F. Tate, Bill Burns
=. - Henry Haynes and Henry Shrum an
. others have work, they should hav
q stayed out for them just the same a
y they did for those men that were dis
3 charged for being union men.
Whiting Bill.