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Gh . et a Pre? Yr oye ge re ge ¥ nae . a an tas ‘4 “ BET . wt i ene, ee: , hee 4 r ee Ot r “ 7 rj ail . _ * Res JOHN L. LEWIS, et al. INTERVIE WITH "4 oouple of duys osfore the strike wes ny ee ee the dey before there wees © special meeting of the oo Unione It was held in the duy time beocuse thet wos not G work doy. at tht meeting olmost 011 of the | men ut the mine were presente There were more than 400 present. I wos. theres. at thet mesting, wo decided that we would not go baok to work until Elehoff ond Feliostti had fired the men who bed been tried by the union ind explelled. The next day none of us went down in the mine at oll. We demanded to Feloetti thet these men be discharged. I heard Faloetti refusee He gave 48 one excuse thit the men could belong cto | any union thet they wanted toe I do not know whei day it we thet light cira were coming to the gurfoce. I believe that it wos the day before the atrikee I do not know what rei.son there wes for the light ourge I do not roall thot there wes ony disoussion «bout wages Lt the time of tho strikes The refusal wus to work with the 12 men who hed been tried am expelled by the wion in 1936. The dey of the strike we atayed Sround end did not work. «about the next week, we went out in the morning end watched to sce if anyono same to worke about 300 of us wore there at the roud on those mornings just withohing. There wos no picket line. Some of the men come to work, and « fuw wert in, but not vory many. ‘fe kept this up just a weok or so, staying there only about an hour in the mornings "Several times during the summer of 1937 ufter tho strike, I went with the committee to the mine in order to try to get things fixed up to go back to work. Frlcetti clwiys refused to fire the men because of the ‘icgner aot. He auid that thit act gave them the right to belang to any union that they any fits "In September when they st rted to open the mine tgoin, we ell went out to the mino to see who would show up. The first dcy the 12 mon who hed been expelled from the FIAT union ofmes ‘Je did not stop theme The next doy, about 300 of us showed up and told Fuloetti thet if thoss 12 went down in the mine that we were goinge ‘/e lined up in front of the pit to go dcwme None of us oxpasted to go down but we were reidye Tha 12 men did not go into the pit, tnd wo decided to stay right there on the property fo see that the oumpaony would not put anything over on u@e Elshoff would not deal with tho Pil? ond we were begiming to think that he wes favoring the UWfile He did not sign ony contract with enybodyse We stayed om the property until tho injunctions Whorn the Mere shell oume with the injunction wae left the property without any troubles 4s for os I mow Elshoff did not try to opon the mine after the injunoctione He would have announoed it in the piper, and blom tho whistle, bat I never heard thit he had triede "In May of 1937, ad fuw days uftor the strike stirted the PMT had a petitions Foloetti "nad told us that he hed o >setition of over 300 sigm.tures of the mon ct the mince who wanted to go for UMie I tnd heard that such a petition hed been pcosscd, but most of tho follows clt.ined that it wea G fraud. To show fMoloctti hiw we felt, we 41) lined up Gnd went te aes F 4 “ tee oO . Pa ee ee ene ge Ta ee A en RC tee enor ad Ree Mag noe Me eg aren ee ee ee { a . "