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L a e opt oan me ars t wh : ' gt re, L RE: JOMNL, LEdS, ET al b5 a . 22 re INSERVIE! VITE QAR «TI board thro gossip at Hine B something about (contimed) parties being given by Elshof? and UT men or officials but I never attended such affai:.~ I rccall that before the strike in 1357 something was said about wages but I never paid mich attention to it 2s 1 still was getting .~ same waves. "The cause of that 1537 strike was not over any waz2 question but vas baused because there were some PMA men who were doing under ground or crooked work for UM7 and that was the cause of the strike, "As long as I can make a living and don't act into arg trouble it doesn't matter woich union I blonc to. I did not go to any mecting the ni ht before the strike but heard someting later at Mine B about same spies being kicked out. I recall that on the day of the strike some of the men did not load their cars full of coal but that only hapvened that one day and they did it because they were mad about the spies not being fired. "I rccall of si.ninz some wetitior for Pka during the sumer of 1357 and can't recall if I si-ned any more or not. J si.ned it of ny own free will and no one forced me to si_n it. . "I remanber thet in summer of 1937 ULET formed a new local and I was then asked to join it but I can't recall wuo asked ne and I told them - I would not sivn up as I just stayed wevtral. "T did not take any p-rticular activity in the strike as I did not vant any trouble with anyone. From the time the nine closed in 1937 I was not out therc at all until the :tne opened for 200d excent one time whe= Plin men foreed me to go cut there and help them -icket. I ae £2, down town one day and jpgf some PR mn and I think onc wa ae anc another 3+ 2ay ae ne tT and they el " out ‘and I did that day and then they wanted to keep wé ther. that nizht too but I hed up wife phone that she was sick so I got beck hone. “her wanted ue to lax down on the cenent floor of the vash room that night but I wouldn't, There was about 150 or 200 men there on the strike, There were no outsiders there in the atrike, just from the local Diu. Iovent out to the nin. m self that day and no one forced me or took ne ovt there, but they told ze T hed to go. I felt that if I didn't so out the, aicht do some harm to me. J voted at the first NLAB for the Fifi, be- cause the, were the majority and that is why I voted. It was a secret ballot. No one forced me to vote that vay and I voted that way because I felt Pah was the better union, The second tine I voted but I cantt recall just how I voted and no one fore d ne to vote anyway that time. The election scemed