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Sec ee em ce ter etn mt JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL. . L -: LO 2 45 °- heard him suy unything about it, but I could ¢el1 fran the wey he acted and the .spreesians on his froe, 1 etose, that ho did not like the PM] very well. Howe ever, I nevyer heard hi suy anything about the UM. Twice in 1986, hcwover, I did Feor “sour F.loetti, the mine superin= tendent sey that sconer or leter 811: tho men would be beok wnder the Ul Cnd once he said that they would be better off ull together in the same union. He seemed to went th.t the men belong to the UM/ but never suid anything Gbout ite I did not know nuch about what wos going om imongst Elsheff und Falootti, but these remerks were made in my presences Thut was bafcro the atriko in 1937. "In 1936 there were sane men who had been ofusing trouble in the mine ond head boen tried by tho Unian, but Elshoff end Felsotti would not fire thom. I wos not at the tricls, and did not hetr Elshoff or Folsetti say cnything about it, "I went to tho Union meotings regularlye They wore held twice a monthe The miners were vory loyul to the Union during 81) the time that the PM wero working ut the mince Somotines there would be over 400 men Gt the union mectingse Sometimes thero would be only 200 or so, depaning on the wecthor ote. Whonever there wea © speoial moeting of the Union, almost el] of them ocme. Spooisl moctings were an ounoed by pleoing & notice on the bullotin board ut the mine "Pony FRctoh, Charles Bcohunnon, und Prenk Austin ond sane of tho other mor werrr tryiie” €t wtso-troulblo at the WI. I did not hoor any of them csk unyone to join the UM/ but I did honr these threes suy to ethur men that the PM? oontriot wos not o retrouotive contract, and some cther things that wore not true about the PHT gontract and offioiels. I ulso suw Tony Plotch hundling a petition ot the mine in 1936. I did not sce that petition. "Except for these men, +». % 1 huve promod ond elso Joo vl benose, andrew Sehrevevious, Doninoo Pigguslo, Puter’Curter, Cotton aninios, John Sirtout, Hnory Jooumy, , Who were & ways conpleining about the wis ‘the PMi was being run I did not hear any of the mon working there oasplody about the Unione They wore ald sutisifed with the Grrongnents for wages, Cte "The diy before the strike, or oluse to the strike, Frloetti @ ycllow paper tht came out of the conpiny offios, - na isxed AL to read it to ths mene There wore copies of it 7 for the men, but none of us tock ite. Bek.rtholanedyroca it, ond it s.id something cbout the tonvorary contrcoot with tho mins not heaving & retroactive slause in it. fe did not pey any &ttention because we know thet it id havee - 27 =