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RE: JOHN L. LEVIS, BT AL. . ro ban LYTERVIET WITH thing about ite I nevor suspested any of the PA officials of stealing any monoy or of doing wrong things oon in and I think thot they wore dcing ao good jobe Bo. (Wi men ever bethored me before tho mino closede I novor got ony popers fran Ukit befcro tho mine closed und I never sow any (Ml men picket the nine bee ora the strike. T never lnew of any spies heineg in tha nine for TRaT ond OFGg The GUrikvse ee ee ey ave waae I don't know anything obout any parties boing given by Elshoff cr by Wai or enyono elsose I don't remember anything sbout the contract yumning cut in spring cf 1937e Beforo the mino olcsed there wia no firhts or trouble at #11 and things were going along just like they always did. I heard that there was going to @ meeting the night before the strike and I just heard it but I did not go and I dantt kmow if it woe | speoiel or regular meetinge On the day of the strike I heard nothing about wiges and I did not know of unyone °. iuz expolled fram the PMA. Wo got oflled out from Mine B but I don't know whys TI reoall something the dey of tho strike thut sane oars woro being louded shorts As I remombor it sano PMA man told us to load thom short but I londod my oars full. I roeall that the troyble oat tho mine sturted beauuse tho Mino B men would not firc same UMW men, and tho strike was not cuused boctuse of wegese ° "I did not sign any petition right after tho mino B closed, and I dan't rooall of signing any potition for oithor UMW cr PMAs I hoerd samething cbout UA forming a new unions I also rogall thet while tho tes ame etree was = wae wor mine was closed 3 men ciume to my house Gnd wroted me to join cover to UM but I we ot sign for thome Ono wns & ind the othor "ees eee ond I don't know whe the titra ong do nut rooall anything hupponing dwring tho summor of 195946 . ; 4 "J do not raetll reosicving any notioe that the mino mes to bo opened in Septe of 1937 und as IT rootll it I heard sano of tho others say the mine was to bo opcndde I wes cut ot tho mine fur a fow deys during the sit-down striko, no one foroed moe to go, I Just wont to sco whit was gcing on, I stsyad u ecuple ef nights out at the mine to help gaurd the preportye All of the men wore loct] PMA men just out there to sco nobody hurt tho minee Thore was no troublo or fights, evorything was ponocefule I wos ot the mine the time that the U. Ses Mars ott efmo out end told us — we would hive to lecve, whon ho told us,tbis Be old us to pt.ok up = and leave, ovarybody pooked up tnd lott "eh SOPs NC ke Be Phehts ner nh a thing thorese - ®T dont kncw nvthing about the attoupt to open the mine oon Boos 13, 1987. "I yoted for the PMA fin tho first NLRB election on Doce 15, 19376 Nobody fcrced ne or told mo that I had to voto for FMA, I voted fur then ; ae 124 - ee oR ee Se i as ea Be Lb oe cso lora tate oye cp eae et =a a 7 ow so i a Fra * FP Spe pe eee