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_ INTERVIE. V ITE RE: "Shortly after the mine closed I rooall ° that I simed a PMA petition which was gotten ‘up by PMA. as J recall? it I sizned this petition on the hishvay near Mine B but most signed up for PM. wll of us signed this petition of our own free will and no force or pr.ssure was used by anyone to make us sig and we simed the peti tion because We. wanted PM. to be our local there. » (contimed) "I never signed any »tition for the UM’ at any time but my wifc, told mc then tnet TOs¥ rLOTCr “es man who misht have been "LARLZS BOH.NNON, came to dur “Rduse at Ree Sprinefield, T11. and 3ViGUtred for um and I b.lieve that their purpose then was to sce me about joinin,, over to UM’. MY wife says tuat Plotch pointed some blue steel weapons at her while he sat in his car at that tine. ®I rocall thet a short time later I signed some other petition in the Mine B coal office, and i dontt recall who circulated this petition but I know I was for PM, at all times. *T never was asked to join a UN? local in summer of 1937. I recall thet in summer of 1937 HWuIWVEY .TLLLMG, who lived on Second 5t., was the FH. enzineer at Mine B lookin “alts the equipment even tho the nine was closed, Williams was i. fevor of FMA always and he once told uy wife and TI that Ul’ men had onec drawn suns at hin ct the mine and werc not going to let bim work unless he was on the Ui. sidc. He told us that he finelly had. to quit. . wILLIA'S died this lest wintur in Springfield, 11. ot I reeall richt Villiams teld us thet ons of the wen was DOMINIC TaSWUALE and the other vas an Italian. ; ace ane ene fT don't recall of anything unusual that hepoened during sumer of 1937 regarding this strike, was goin, to o.cn, forever, HARVEY “TALLIS and ex L who also worked at the minc, “Gane tou home and told me e heard the ELSEOFF was goinz co rGonen the’ ni nc the followin: zorn- ing with Ui) men and Williens said thet inasimch as PI, wes in control that all FHA men should be at Mine & thy _f ol? wing mornin? The following norn- inz I rods out to Mine Bwi «7° " “RRM phonetic) and when 1 got there all of us PHL nen were"there at ice told us that he vanted 25 UMT men to so down into the “ine to clean it up end some of those 14 nen T rentioned before including F2Ny .USTIN, wont dom into the mine. The picketing | -. startud then the next worning after FHA had a mevting in town. ‘thé next norning no one went down and we Pili, fellows started to guard the property and those 12 or 13 wen who went down the day before did not ,0 down again, en ae