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John L Lewis — Part 7
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: : 2: * open the nine reopened
"as Alr Cheokere “I gaw him many t{pes in the
" going around talking with the men and trying to get then 6 shaiige Sy
the UMW. ‘Ye never had an Air Checker at tat time for the 18 dioalty
Ao
. Beate ‘ana sue ae he ‘other m a
“had just oume to the mine threstene nt me Wwe Bane of the Deputy 2
Sheriffs stoped the fighting but a4d not do anything aboyt ite Y sw
several tae here, and saw old mon beaton and out ups fT saw sane “of thee:
‘get hite In January 1941 I was framed in the theft of same coal one a
was disohsrgede I threstensd to take the matter to court and mike them Ex:
pay for 411 the lost time thad. A couple gaya, ‘Later they offered ‘¥q Fotaetate :
me, but I had soon enough at the mine, the beatings op thé old mon, ‘and els *
the trouble, ond the tines that they ind gturted to try to beat mee. “2 dae.
_ edded thet TI would not be able to go beak, arid work these under those “Gand i é
and so I did not returne J did vote in the NIR3 elestion which wos he}
Y ny eh after that because Z a Deon a omplayod . the day that
“el idles kh, a enone a are
_ tgan “elmes ‘tn ine porntiga, sthon 19 wit
amittee, men we knew os good standing PMY mon pane Rss the offise end
* lor works Evary tine Falootti would tell then thet the wore pot hiring
” gmt days A day or so later, sare men that none of ‘ua kndéw would cane Sind’
““aak for employment, ond Paloett) would Aire ‘thats Vo ‘would ‘nak thon vie at
“ Wnion they belonged to, and thoy would almoat alwiys say, that thoy
belong Ad ony. wmiione, A tow deys later they, would eyo a oordse
a ae "ty the “pala ‘of 1937" when ‘tho vB pei” ap eleott
. otoyoos of Mine B, there was no troybio at aide I do nos regal ¢;
‘¥hore that élootion waa hold, but I do, reall tet" thor'a wes’ not. |
“aboyt ite. There wore dexvora UMT ‘orgenizors | ar durid ‘They asa, not guise. i
" «Loténde or thythings © The PRY organizers had not tal le
ime, dos 2use they know how wo af felt about the. ‘thions. | . Thee Be
“sorcoton oF Gnything of that sorte. The Peet won told ojl ¢ tho nen & hey’
5, ned “a Fight . to vote, and that they tugs to votes” ff the “On ai noe vo 4.
“Sway of getting to vote, the PST mon did find probaly . to giv ¢
Fnere were po fhroate about, What. won vid 4 bippen i tho dia not
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