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: Ne JOMN Le LEWIS, ET AL ‘ into Paloetti's office, and signed the peitian right there on his desks. Faloetti stood there and watohed us for a while, until he got tired of it, and walked out. I do not knew of any other petitions. "During the time fran December 1937 when the injunotian came ani we left the Mine B property wtil the Nine opened in 19568 I wes unemployed for over a yeur, and could not find a job anywhere. I finelly got & job at one of the Punther Cree: Mines, but I could not get & good olice and did not meke enough money to live one Hy mother wis eick &t thut tire, we hud a big doctor bill, ond & large grooery bill. The only way that we could settle up was to sell our hang, which we did. "During the time of the strike I went out to tho mine many times with the committees in order to try und get things struightened out and go buck to work. Falcetti ignored us moat of the time thet we went theres Hoa would talk with us, but would shake his hetd whenever we mentioned the 12 mon and would then change the subjeote I do not rocll thet there wos ony agreement with the Union us to opening the ming &gbin in 1939. Thut was the firet time he tried. "I went beck to Mine B & week or so ufter the mince reopened. Ther¢ hed boon & smull cave in ond I oould not get to my room. After it was ole.ned up I went beck to my sumo working place in the mine. Most of the men went back te the sine rogmse I wa mince stowrd ind heard the compluints .s they oume up. although I did not heve uny trouble, I know tht the Pi! mon were given poorer rooms etc. when there roans petered out thin the Udi men. Dirt wes being oumped on the ‘ours of the Biv men, their tools were being stolen, bnd they ware beaten. Miny times I wes with the committce whan they somploined to Falcetti tnd Elshoff bout the conditions, end they refused to do anything ubout ite They etisily could hive done scmethinge He would soy thet he did not know whit he could do about it, and would sty tir.t he would send one of the bosses to check on it, but none ewer dide Iwas in Feloctti's office tlmost every moming.e The sume thing h-pponed every duye T never hetrd oither Faloeetti or Bisheff sty enything bout ohanging Unions sto. Muny tires when we went to the office, the UMT oamittcaa would alrcady be there, and when wa ofme in, thuy would quit telking. I do not knew if tho wos teking o-re of their sompluints or note "I do know, however, ta-t ufter somebody joined tho UM thet dirt w.g not found in their cool, th.t thoir tools ware not being stolen my morc, and they wore soon t-ken out of thoir room, und put into t good room. Thit was common knowledge tbout the minee “hon the mine rcopenod, thore wos no evidence of any big ofve in or fire th.t I saw. ‘When I first wont into the mine, about a, ~ =~ 29 =