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. : " ’ . Lt . . q . . . ee ee . 4 9 t tn REt JOHN Le LEWIS, BT aL. . a A NESe TITH becauso { liked thot mion and thay wore tho wnian a at the mince whe he ~~. "Y dont romenber onything about tho “attempt to open tho mine in Jane of 1938¢ Fram Jane 19356 to Nove 1939 I did not goto | the mine but stayod around hone most or the timoe So far os I roncnber the tinc I went to the mino during tho strike wos of thea tino of the site - weaw oot onay oe aC) Went TO 8Ne Mine Curse wie Sur 2ad down strike, \ “Whon tho mine opencd in Now» 1939 & ye and breught ne oa letter telling me I shovld oone Saok to werk in throe days or I would loose ny jobe He oily gave ne the lottor and tcld ne I had only three days to show up for worke He said nothing to me cbout joining any unione YThen I reported for work PALCETITI, tcld no thet ny room wos nut ready fer mo to work in yet and that he would let nc know when I could sone bask to werk, he nover told mo when to ono beck to work, I had to go buck fran tino to ‘tine to find out, rT wont back to > work in Jane 1940, I thinke . "I dont boliove that I Joined tho UM until after the lest NIRB gleotion, in Febe 1941. ‘When I went buck to work they gave no & roan thet had bod air, this 4s tho real ronson that I uito last yoor beosuse they — wouldntt give me a room with good aire Nobocy cver threatened me or hurt ne tc nake me join tho UMT, but ny tools woro stolen, I bolicve this was d3no S¥ one of the UMT nen hired thero those nen ha 5 no tools of there own in nany oasese This was boforo I joined the UST. I have md ny tools stolen on three ocofsions altogether, o11 three of these times wora bow : ast NIRB eleotians It is ny Y bolief that the UMV fen felt. BO they stole my tools instead. I novor hea of ‘the nine ovrteta cd say anything t> indicate that thoy favcred one unica cver the others I do not rencmber heving signodc any men! vorship cards for i it cither union our ing the. sunnor of 1940. .° 3. : i de woe. my voted ot tho sooond NLRB olection and again voted for the PMA, I did this boonuse I felt this to tc th: bost unione I think thet the ual wn this election because thoro wore now non brought into tho mine, fT anw scovoral nen in the nine who didn't even have any toolse After the elestion wos over many of those nen went cwoye In the Jone following the clootion I joined the UM¥, I felt I had to Join the WAT or be boat, no y one threatened to beat mo but I had hoard cf this happoning to others and ' I joined to keep anything from happening to mee It is my opi: ’on that o.nditions in the nine aro worse 2 Undor tho UM than they wore under tho Puts 1. se me a Men I returned to ‘tho ‘nino thore wore a lot of squeozos in it, | it was in protty bad shapes I dont know anything about cny fire while the L z ST page Te