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JGR L. LE ET ; Rey JCM L LEIS, aL | S> Cc INTERVIEW WIT: SM "1 didn't go back to work until November of (continued) a 1939 when I got my check number fron Falcetti and my room was all right, so JZ went right to work. Some of the men could not go right to work bk cause ther: had been "f21i ins" and thcir rooms wernu not cleaned out. About 190 men went to work this first day and then about 25 more could go back each gay as thir rooms were ¢lcaned out. fT got a registcred lettcr to come back to work in Nov, 1939, and all the men talked of going back tu work in the open mine. But we all theught we were going back as P Ma and that is what I thought. “Turing this time I was laid off betwcen 1937 and 1939 I hac nothing to do with the minc. Some of the 7.-lu.s were getting beat up by Uk W mun, but J don't r_membeur who they weorc, and I didn't want to get beat up ; f 5O I juse svicyveod away. wht 4 3% aye x tfter several months after the nine rc-opuncd in 1939, ' three DU M “in men dame to mc, but I don't rememmr their names, and told me if I didn't "i sign up with a Mow I would oc out ©* 2 job. These men said if I didnitt sign for U XW by & certain day, I would be out of a job. So the day befo this last day, I signed for UMW. 4he only rcason I signed was because I Gidn't want to lose my jeb, and 4t didn't make any diff.rence to me whethe Iwas Fa or UNW ust so the mem were huncst and I would join the majority. fT cannot roncnr any elections or voting at any clections after - went back to work in Minc "Bf in 1239. After I signed for U MW I cever signed anything for PMA. How.ver in about 1937 I remember voting in an election where P Ha got about 300 vetes and UM Ww got about 28 votes, "Since I've joined UMW T I worked in Mine Sg" fr > 1939 uw Mine "4", at fhis tir ELL pave me a slip to gct a job in Nine "2". de sara Fhia Boon 3 good worker and could cam morc money in Mine #4", k d no trouple with ANYONE « when I went to work in ‘ Saftcor I wont back to work in 1939 et Mine "B* U HW organizers weuld come to Mone "3m and tried to get us to join U UW. No onc tricd to - heat mo up but ona U MW fcllow who said he had come from Kansas k-- . Kentucky tried tc talk me into joining U e W. Another U BW fcllow tried to talk ms into joining U KW and he was 2 Frenchman. But I cannot renenbe: any of their nines,