Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-04
Third District.
Special 10 ne Nes0s.

w. Morrison as his only authority for
the report l most sincerely regret to
disturb Mr.. Morrison while he is con-
fined to his bed in such a serious con-
dition as at present, but will state for
the benefit Of those concerned. as Mr..
Rankin stated he was ready to take
the stand and swear that Jim Morri-
SON told him what be charges. that
| perhaps l will weigh as much as you
weigh on the stand for truth and YER
| acity, and | am very keen to swear
taat there is not word of truth in
the whole trumped up chatge from
start to finish. Wonder why Rankin
would seek to pick up 10 year dead
issue and quote conversations that oc-
Cured with him and non-union men
who were fighting the labor organiza-
tion to a finish. Let every intelligent
reader look to the facts as to who was
doing the talking. Rankin was the
man claiming to be a union man and
at the same time acknowledging as to
having an interview with the agent of
| the non-union element is enough to
settle the issue. beg to state | never
wrote one note during the whole labor
trouble to Mr.. Morrison, and further
state the following, Which is backed
up by Fred Fl. White, a member of
the U. NJ. w. Of A, my nephew,
which forever settles the letter and
note writing charge, and which Mr..
Morrison himself will certify as true.
As to reports regarding secrets of the
mine workers union given out by me
to the company's agent, Mr.. Morri-
son, who represented at that time the
non-union side. and / represented the
union, which everybody here will re-
member. and Morrison and / fought
the battle to finish, he on one side of
the struggle and i on the other. Dur
ing the whole labor war until peace
was declared / never went on the
company's property, or met any man
by the name of Morrison and revealed
alleged secrets of the union. / win
state for the full benefit of the U. M.
w. of A. that frankly stated to the
| public that made speeches with 9th
ers in the union hall for three years,
and never spoke or advocated, or ev-
or heard any other speaker, directly or
indirectly. ever advocate or go into
any secret caucus but what was legiti-
mate. right, honest, respectable and
clean and there was no secret combi-
nation of the union men to do any vio-
lenGa or resort to any mob violence, or
to do any personal injury to said cor
peration, or permit individuals. but
what could have been communicated
to Mr.. Morrison OF the coal corpora.
tion, and could have been communica-
ted to the public press while the edi-
tor of the News remembers until this
day came to the press with facts as
they existed. emphatically denounce
the traitor charge as falsehood from
start to finish and Mr.. Morrison will
back me up in that. He knows good
and well that never was over on the
company's property during the labor
war between union and non union
men, and know Mr.. Morrison, when
be RECEIVERS sufficiently from his pres
ent illness, over his own signature,
will sustain me as to what state, as
being the truth, and that is all | ask
to let the truth settle the question,
and it will stand when this old world
is on fire and every falsehood will go
as chaff in the air.
Didn't "Uncle Tom make a bloom
ing picture of me and hang up sign
In the public press of me. He must
be very ignorant or misled by some
one relative to the political situation
over here, and | am tickled almost to
death over his letter in the News.
The socialists are mad, the democrats
are glad, the republicans are just a
laughing, and all over what he said.
"Uncle Tom, ;" may die and l never
would have the pleasure of answering
and letting the reading world know
how bad you missed the republican |
party and me when you shot pop |
shot at us last week. You had just as
we'll fired at the moon for you would |
come as near shooting it down, dear
uncle, as you would the republican
party and myself You seem to have
me vice versa on the company side
and have got me on the democratic
side. Relative to what you say about
the discharge of Mccormack and Stat
ton, you brand me as being on the
company's side of the down fall and
the discharge of your two brother So
cialists because knew that the super
intendent of the T.. G. I. Co. was a
democrat, and further knew be was
one of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Marion county, and had the
dagger to handle against your socialist
party, and that is why l only made
mention of the the facts. Now comes
the rub and the real fun, ''Uncle
Tom,' where you drown all your So
cialist brothers over here at one dip
and one stroke of your pen. Let me
call attention to the holy truth then.
That is, putting the blocks and screws
and discharging your socialist broth
ers over here wAA done by democrats