Matewan Page #4

time is going to be the end of us.

So we got to pick away

at this situation

slow and careful.

We got to organize

and build support.

We got to work together.

Together!

Til they can't get their coal

out of the ground without us

cuz we're a union!

Cuz we're the workers damn it!

And we take care of each other.

- How can we shut the mines down

if we don't dynamite 'em?

The men walk out!

All of them!

Fat chance.

And every man that walks out

on his own steam

we take into the union.

- All the dagos

and all the coloreds?

That's what a union is fellas.

You better get used to it.

So this fella owns a vineyard,

goes out first thing one morning

and he hires some workers.

Says he'll give 'em a dollar for

the day which was decent wages

in biblical times.

Well then he's at the

marketplace and he sees some

other fellas and he hires them.

And some more at noon and some

at 2 and some at 5 and

every time it's the same deal...

a dollar for the day and he's

hiring all day long right up

til 1 hour before quitting time.

Look we're real sorry to barge

in on you like this,

but it's come to a point where

we got to talk to you.

Now I know you people got it

hard coming to a new country.

You don't know the rules.

Don't know how things work.

They don't know sh*t about

mining coal that's for sure.

They been dying like flies

in that #3 hole.

- But how it is,

you don't have a whole lot of

choice in this thing.

You know what a union is?

Sindacato.

- Sindacato?

What the situation is,

we need every...

- We join the union they shoot us.

We no join the union you shoot us.

Well, that's one way of

looking at it.

That dago's just driving me crazy

Now what's he playing?

-Shhhh

Now who's that?

Peckerwood's gone past.

Union men will be up

in a few minutes.

What we talking to him for?

-You want to walk back to Alabama?

The sun goes down and he sends

for his foreman and he says to

go pay off the workers starting

with the ones he picked up just

an hour ago and to pay everyone

of them the same dollar a day.

And of course the fellas that

went out first

is roped off about this.

So they get to agitating,

complaining so loud that the

owner come up and he says,

"Look it,

we dealt for a dollar

and that's what you get.

And what I pay anybody else is

none of your look out, so there."

Now that's all the gospel story

says except for the moral Jesus

drew out of it.

And so Jesus says,

Thus it will be in the kingdom

of heaven the first will be last

and the last will be first.

Now it's clear from this parable

that Jesus hadn't heard nothin'

about the union.

If he was walking the earth

today and seen the situation we

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