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RE: JOHN L. LEIS, ETAL L Jog hae, INTCRVIE. WIT?! Gis. myself end was right there, Austin went dom (continued) into the mine afterwards and pulled out coal with the miles. The pkssip at Mince B was that . a a board mombor, hed telxed to Elshoff about firing thos exrelied ner that Elshoff complained to that we miners werc not filling our cars with coal, and according to gossip thor told Elshoff that the miners were doing pretty good and that if he would not fire thos. mon he Would call the mincrs out and close down the minc. * ‘ Me miners ncvsr loaded 8.ott .oads until that day and some of us miners were sorc b cause the management left those men return to work and - some of the miners, not myself, did not fil the cars full and they did thay just b. cause they .er: sore, I loeded full ears and when I got out of the rine I did not see am partially loaded cars at all but just saw full ones. I did not know that there was 20ing to be & strike until I got on to. when the other miners said thut — culled them out and that they were goin; to strik: becaus. Elsho id not fire those acn. I did not see F.LCETTI tali: to any miners on that day. The strike was caused just because the manacement of Mine B would not fire those men and there was no other reason to strike. "I recall that shortly after the strike, I with other riners, sign gom petition in the office of Hine B, and at that time our Committec, =rcsident and FUICETTI, wore thcFo™too. The PA officials told us that we should siin the way we wantcd to anc afterwards I heard that 7A worn, Ho one told me how to votc and no one b at me up and we all voted the way ve wanted to, "IT never signed an; petition for I, I also think that I si.med some other petition for PMA alone the road thcre at the mine. I don't re- call anythin, about Ui! forminz a new local in the summer of 1937, but I do recall that at some time while the, gine was closed TOMY FLOTO™ came to oy home on Suvsral times wits DO ONTofr.SQUALE and WIT Pie Soren ere ‘AY and they taited m: to sign a card or paper With UN? but I told them I” souTt not sign but that if the whole lIocal went I would go too but not otherwise as IT ras well satisfied with Pi. "T rumcuber that the net-spapers said something in fall of 1937 that Mine B would be rcopened and all of us ‘ent back to the Minc B and intended | to ~o Dick to wors. I don't know if PMA had a oecting or not cs to that action they would tauke and I don't rz9ill of anything unvsucl heepon-ning during summer of 1937, That morning I saw FAICETTI come out and talk to us mincrs but I did not hear what he said out I heard from others that F.LCBTTI said he wantsd so meny to do down into the mine but they had-to first go ints the office and sign up with UMT and then no FMA mon went don at all and we all went home. However, I sai about 12 men, one of whom was JOEN SiRTOUT, Lo . - 95 =