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* aly “little Italian nanegf6.1, PETE C.RUER, FR Re: JOHN L. LE-IS, ET aL ; ce _ . . - personal grudges against one another and could not get. along. F.RRINGTON is now deceased. I felt that UM; should be cleaned up and that the niners should not bring in another union. I finally joined the Progres=- sives at Mine B as all the others did. ‘Some PI. Conmittce tole me that if I didn't sign over to PM. I would have to quit. Thzt night about 7 or 8 of us signed over. We were told to sign over which I did. I- was given the UN; pitual tho instead of the PQ so in onc way really | never was with PMA. I never took any a¢tive part in forming the PMk at all as I was satisficd with the old UIS.. I was just about forced to join over to PM., or else I had to quit so IT signed over, but I never was beat up or anything like that, 1 tis far as I knov Pil. officicls got along alright trith the nenagenent of Hine B. [ovever, I recail that neither the P.. officials nor the company ifself gave out iwch information as to what vas going on between 1932 and 1937 then the ifine B closed down, us far as I know the Fil. officias got along with the managenent of Mine B. If the Pit. officials did any crooked work in connection with the books I don't know about it as I never hed accuss to their books, “hen I first joined over to Fit. I attended a special and resular neeting but after that I never attended any nore neetinzs because I neverapproved of the idez of the miners splitting up like they did, that is, to have Fl. come in and take over. I don't know what went on with those Fil. meetings as after the split between UM’ and when Fou. cane in I never took any nore interest in mine matters and just did ry work and went hone. ‘hile with Fit. I don't recall of then ever assessing any spocial asscss.ents except the deith benefits assessuents. I don't believe thet the Pit. officials did enough for the miners to get then clean end fresh cir in the ine. Hovever, this has not been remedied even since IN cane back to Mine B. J never heard any runor about Pit. officials doing crooked work with money etc. of the Local No. 54. I never heard anything wrong then, "UMy men never set up a picket line st Mine B prior to the tine the mine closed that I know of nor do I know of any leterature being given out, ‘Before the mine closed CH..RL.S BOE,NNON, COTTON «N.NLS, a NE AUGPTIN, TONY rLOTCH, and seve eral others would go around in the Mine B and would talk to the miners about going back to Uity but they never used any rough tactics at all. They didn't have to talk to ue about it because I still at heart with. wc even tho I had joined over to PM.. I don't know if tho above nen received any salary from UST for doing their organizing work but several of then did tell ne that they would get back from Uf’ noney © spent on phone calls and for car fare.