Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-07-15
Alabama City, Ala.
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have been sick, but tnlhk Wheh Man
DIV fries me some fish | will be all
right. This is Sunday and | can hear
them sing at three different churches
There are some as fine people in Ala
bama City as there are in the world.
This place doesn't try to work men
out of Jobs There are no company
sucks, and thank God one man is
treated like another and they all look |
lust alike to the company and work
inst alike. When | think how the
poor working men at Tracy have been
treated it pains my heart. just look
how prosperous and how lively old
Tracy was before nonunion labor took |
charge of it, 1t was one OF the finest |
little towns on the globe, but what is
it now. / thank God for letting the
people who caused the downfall of
Tracy reap their reward for it, [
hope they will get so weak that they
can't eat breakfast until they have to
boiler to Almighty God and say,
"Clean my heart and give me back
peace and plenty, else | perish. |
know the condition the people are in
at Tracy City. l was raised there and
know Just how to ask for what they
need, so | will ask the blessing to be
poured out on my poor brothers at Ira
cy City, who have gone through the
great downfall of Tracy City, and
came out white as pearl and their gar
ments dipped in the fountain of un-
ionism, and | thank God for it. So if
we ever get to heaven we can see
somebody that is not out on the streets
looking for strikebreakers, but you can
hear the Lord say, peace and plen-
ty." Thank God we will there all
be as one and we will be the Lord
sheep, and He will be our master, and
we will not meet once year and make
contracts with Nunley Ridge Coal Co.
nor the r. G. l. Co., and we will not
have any company sucks to tell what
our order says when we meet, and
hope when | get there | won't hear of
| d III DO"h lOl IuCO
will try to rent or lease part of
heaven for it to be said that they are
boss. There are some good christians
in Tracy City, but it is a big mouth
full to say. l will never look in Abra-
ham bosoms for the majority of the
so-called christians. | know the ma
iority of them like dollar and they
love the devil better than they do
Christ. Some of them work and whine
little for Christ on Sunday, or if
some of their folks die get little re-
ligious What is christian? They
are as angels and as a light in dark
ness | want to ask the good people
who helped break the strike at Tracy
City what did it profit them. Look
at them today, how they are living.
They know who and what caused it.
They go half naked and half starved.
A cheap grade of anything is always
run on cheap system, so the people
of Tracy City are now reaping the seed
they have been sowing for some time,
and there will be plenty of labor when
the harvest is over at Tracy.
A man told me the other day he waa
a union man. He said he was shipped
to the state of Alabama He said he
did not know what union meant, and
he said he commenced work at three
dollars per day. He said the second
day at night some one hollered "hel-
To-" He said he went out and asked
him what he wanted, and the man
said, 'Do you want to buy some whis-
key" He told him he certainly did
and asked, "Will you take company
checks" The fellow said be would
take anything. He said, ''All right,
the company will pay for anything we
men who work want. The man said,
Follow me-" and he said he went
down in the bushes piece and the
man said, Stand right here one min.
ute, till l disguise my face and be
said all at once be was thrown across a
log and he said he got a licking in
stead of liquor. That night they
whipped "a that came with him and he
said they went to the superintendent
house and asked him to do something
for them, and the superintendent told
them to go to the back porch and stay
and he would get doctor as soon as
he could, He said God deliver him
from another strike.
Alabama City is nice place and
there are as nice people as God let,
J live, living here There is plenty OF
} work. l live in 40 yards of the library
and within 30 yards of nice church
| l can hear them when they pray.
} live in 200 yards of the park and Their,
is all the time something doing. II
suits me all right, and if anybody
will come here they will be pleased
R. L. DYKES