Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-18
SOCIALIST CRITICISM
OF OLD PARTIES

} are full OF reds over here in this part,
/ was refused church house to speak
} in Thursday night. but we marched
J up to the Farmers Union store, whert
seats were arranged as best they could,
and talked one hour and thirty min.
utes to an enthusiastic crowd.
You see boys, the revolution is on,
it don't matter where you go. am,
indeed, glad TO know that everythi ng
is getting along finely in Marion. Com
rade 81. L. Rankin is champion to
the cause of labor. Just think, Mr..
Workingman, of a conversation like
this: 81 could not give you work,
Rankin, it would be detrimental to
the company. You are too strong a
union man. This happened IT Whit
well, just before was discharged by
the same tool. Now, waSeh these ver-
min of the old parties rally to the sup
port of such vultures of the capitalist
system as this Don't you know,
Comrades, that to educate the work
ers, all such teaches would have to 60
to work, but the old parties have al
ways conspired against the laboring
man. They did that in Cleveland's
administration and in Roosevelts ad
ministratiSn, and the same thing is
being dong under Woodrow Wilson s
administration, but, boys, be can't do
thing But back up the thieves and
lobbersi of the poor miners. Why,
don the governors send soldiers to
shoot and kill scabs and strike break
ers? Do YOU know that it was the
democratic party in your state that
sent the state soldiers to the Coal Greek
back in the nineties to shoot down
working men who were only asking
their just rights. Do you know that
it was the democratic party. Conner
being at the head, that sent the state
soldiers out to shoot to death the inno-
cent union men, women and children
and destroy the working mems organ
ization in Alabama Do you know it
was the democratic party that conspir-
ed with old Bill Taft, republican, to
smash the railroad union in the Pull
man strike of Chicago in 1894.
Now, to the working class of people
of Marion county, do you know that
the two old parties have formed every
plot against you that has been to your
slavery. Now, mark what have to
say, it won't be SO easy to satisfy the
workers IN the future as it has beer in
the past. The black handed murders
and assassins haven't had such easy
sailing in Colorado this time. Now,
the slogan Is down with government
by gun men and appointed thugs and
strike breakers. Give us the initiative
and referendum and we will end for
ever all scabing and strike breaking,
Give us the recall and we will forever
settle the questions of injunction
judges, so you can see, Comrades, that
it depends on our intelligence. If we
like to vote for parties who shoot down
working men, women and children,
vote the democratic and republican
tickets. Since the average worker
produces SO, 700 in wealth each year
Census bulletin 1907 by using strictly
modern machinery. he might easily
double these figures. How comes it |
that he receives in wages only SAG. 70. |
Common labor receives only 1922. 90 |
annually, women from three to five
dollars week and children from fifty |
to seventy cents per week. How is it |
that in addition to the wage slaves |
who are lucky enough to find work, |
even at these miserable wages, there |
are millions who are unable to get |
work. They are drifting into deeper
poverty each year, which leads to |
crime and even suicide. which, if I'M
checked, will mean the history of sew
enteen hundred repeating itself, and
plunge the nation in a bloody car
mage, such as the world never before |
saw. The cause Of such deplorable |
time is the crisis confronting this ma
ton today is that the idle capitalist
class owns the social tools of produc- !
tion, and with their thugs and lick
spittles, claim the right to rob the
men and women who have to use these
tools without which the workers must
starve in land of plenty, and the
capitalists will only let the workers
use these tools when they can get the
biggests share Of profit, so you see you
can only get to work when you can
bring in the surplus value and lay it
on the idle plunderers shelves, hence.
the workers get busy for ten or fifteen
years, laying the surplus value on the
shelves and soon he finds
himself without job. The idle rich
mans barn is full. His soul is taken
away from him. according to the scrip
TUES. He closes the door and turns
the key. The poor worker. with sad
heart returns home studying what
might be the matter. Soon some of
his neighbors get a paper and he
learns that there is a panic on in the
country. So you see that the workers
have created so much food heShas5 to
go hungry. He has created 40 many
clothes his children must 60 destitute