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‘JOEN L. LEVIS, ET AL "out two wooks aftor this, and probably on Mey 11, . aia en - 1937 a spooial meeting was onllod by PMA. As noor as \™, ~ foontinucdy I oan rooall this nooting was announced by a notioo on the bullotin board at the nine.” I attonde?d this mooting and Bil¥Schowe, the prosicemt road off chargosa that oortain movibors of PLA Wore working arainst the union in thot they woro trying to got tho nen to join TMT, Tho non wore nanod ané I know that Peto Cartor, Frork dust in and Dorinio Pasguale wero anong thon. Thoso mon wofd"prosont and gould havo” Adeworod the ohargos, but as I rocall, thoy loft without saying onything. Othor mombors tostified that thoy hod becn approached by those non in an offort to got thon to join UM. A vote wos tekon and theso nen wore oxpolled fran Pil. "The follaring day, which would be May 12, 1937 tho non who wore oxpollod samo to po to work. Inasruch os thoy no longer bolonged | to the union the mon wouldn't work .ith thom ond wanted thon.dischargod, | The hon woro urgod to co to work and finally wont down in tho pit, dut yt ‘as lone os the oxpollod merboras veron't firod, the othor non started to re sopé up short loads of gonl. Things cot worse and finally tho non wont | on « strike. I do not know for euro who calleé tho striko, but it was a ee nam TDR wanannen at hy machaes - ot POGUES OL Ui Oxpo~sGc MerosTrs working and not becauss of any wage Aisputo. “I signed a petition about Moy 26, 1937 whioh stcatod that the sicncrs wanted PHA to roproeont ther, I eipnod this at tho Union Hall on@ as I recall, sano norbers woro approached at their horco, Howovwr, whethor to eign or not was up to cach man and no one wag naco to sign or throatonod in anyway, Tho purpose of the potition was to show tho conpany that wo wanted to go bask under PMA. ®t, ¢id overything thoy could to opon the mines. Tho stato Prosicont JocyGoanic, mado sovoral trips to tnehington to cot holp, © *Saiotino in Scptonbor, 1937, Elshoff eont a notice through the mail that the nino would open. 4n attempt was mado to opon it undor Us Dut PUA mon wont im and took tho nino overe We stayod in thoro fifty-sovon days and wore sorvoc with o Focoral injumotion noking ue mot Out, At thie tino we folt that this was not right, but thora was . nothing Wo could ¢o about ite *I voted in tho NIRB olootion in Dooorbor, 1937. “I roooil that this olootion waa hold in tho Arnorye No ono told 20 how to vote, tho olcction was oréorly ané thera was no ¢istusbanco of any kinds Aftor this, I cid not go back to the nine and know nothing of any othor ogpurroncas thers .. Mon te oc OF ” . : ae ra tet mt