Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-08-06
SOCIALISM THE REMEDY.

Editor News:
IL you will allow me space l will try
TO give the situation at Etna First,
will say that the company gives their
men good houses to live in and charges
them reasonable rent Second, will say
they haven't got any place here for
men to work, except in mud holes and
dirt and slate and only give them three
| and four days a week and charge them
such high prices for everything they
must have TO live on that most of them
are i'll debt. And moreover, the COM
pany has every man discharged that
says anything about the union ! don t
think that they have any right to kick
at the union for don't think that any
union man is in favor of organizing
mud holes and dirt.
am q union man in principle and
do not care who knows it. do not
hold to man that will draw a "big
stick on a man who has worked for
him, and asked him to pay him off. 1t
is not the thing to grab ''big stick"
and then say, 81 will paw you off with
this stick. 1t will not do to try ev-
cry man that way. Some men would
get mad and it won't do to attempt to
fool me that way for / do believe
in union principles. Do as you wish
to be done by. / believe in equal
rights in mines or any other work, not
allowing any pets nor contractors, for
if company can give 81. 25 per ton to
a contractor they can pay the miners
$1,00 per ton for digging the coal.
How can any man kick at union
principles, much less a company |
say if man does not believe in the
union, he is no christian, nor does he
believe in the Bible, nor its teachings
Take the situation of our country to-
day and who caused it to be soy The
money power by holding to their mon
ey, shutting down all kinds of employ
ment to reduce the price of labor
while we see the price of iron and
steel, coal, lumber, stock, hay, corn,
wheat and all other produce and every
thing that the laboring man has to
buy, is still increasing in price. say
the law Of every state should force all
incorporated companies to work no
man except union men, so that labor
day, brother workers, the condition in
which we stand by pulling against
each other to please the money power.
We can't dress our wives and children
fit to go in company, while the man
we work for takes his wife dressed like
butterfly and rides from town tC
town on the money he has accumulated
from our labor. Is that right / think
not. 1 love my wife and my children
as dearly as they do theirs but can
treat them as we'll and why? We, as
laboring men, have no law to protect
us and give us equal show with the
money powers and why? Just because
we listened to the money man and vot
ed in his favor and work against oul
own interests Socialism is the only
remedy for labor under the sun, where
by labor can ever get its rights. Some
say it won't do to elect a Socialist
that they want to divide up our mon
ey and property. Not so, it only
wants to divide up the products of our
labor that We as a laboring class, may
enjoy the fruits of our labor, whereby
we may feed and Clothe our families
school our children as others do theirs
Who, as a laboring man, can vote
against Socialism the only remedy
|
ducts of their toil2 | have always vot
ed a republican ticket. but have quiz
as labor has all the tariff to pay ant
bear the reduction of labor and pay
Wall Streets prices for everything WI
consume, while our government give'
men a pension of about one hundred
dollars per month and them with biz
farms and thousands of dollars i'll the
bank. 1t is robbery and unjust as la
Dor has it all to pay, and it does no
matter how bad cripple man is i.
he has not been soldier or had somt
thing to do in government affairs, h
can go. If the laboring men do no
keep him up he is gone. Everything
is against us, so wake up and lool
ahead. Drop both of these two ole
parties. Let them die like "a sap suck
er, trying to pick hole in iron bar.
UNCLE BLUE.
Roope, Tenn