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ome - : me ~ ees se RT NW RE Sip RT RP EERIE ! é ae . oo ‘ . mn “ ) Re: JOHN L. LE«IS ET ab fo / just to see what was going on. I saw a bunch of wops around there with canes in their hands and I told then that they did not need any clubs as no one would cone out and bother them. They did not harn me at all nor hurt me. another day I went out too and on both tines things seemed to be alright and quiet and the men out there were fron Local 54 and I did not see any stranters. Wo one had asked me to help in the sit down strike and I never took any part inf at all. J had once said that I would never picket any union. I think that the miners went out voluntarily to the mine to picket it anid that they were not forced to go out and be there. fT] read in the papers about the Federal injunction being gotten out but I wea not out at Mine B and don't know anything else about it. nT did not know anything about the mine being. reopen.d in Dec. 1937. "T did not vote at the first NLRB election and don't know any- thing about it at all, JI think was sick then so did not vote, "I don't think I went out to ‘fine B in Jan. 1938 as I only went out later when they opened for good. I read that PIL. won the first election and I don't know why ELSIOFF would not sign a contract with FRA. I took no active interest in union affairs in 1936 or 1939 till: itine B reopened, "In the fall of 1939 I received a registered letter fron Mine B telling me to come back to work and I did and I was told that they would call me later on and they put my nome down on alist. J saw FALCETTI and he did not ask me what union I belonged but I think he knew I was a _monber in good standing of ULE, 4 month or 6 weeks leter the paymaster stopped at py house and told me to cone tools as uy old ones were lost in a ait ant than T khsA £4 ter nce OLY ama Ven 2 daa VO Dy Dow . take muc > Was an open shop when I went ag back, and no one told us why it was thet way, and nothing was said about “y the wage scale, JI went back with UM’. The PM. and UM’ niners got along ~ alright in the nine there when I went back to work, There was quite a . few new UMT men in the nine B fron Indiam. and other states but I heard r that these new nen were not allowed to vote in the next NLRB election as they were not there long enough, Nobody asked me to sign any nemh ee, cards in 1940, I had heard that LEE pa, UM., and a mm, had a fight et Hine B bu hever saw it but” ‘think it was not over union natters but Kas a personal fight. \ AQ PORE Mere et