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a I ie chs as C an’, RE: JOAN L. LEWIS, ET aL ; INTERVIEW WITH except a few, were éatibfied with the Progtessives. I don't recall of any coffplaint being made on pay continu days over ouf wageés Before the étrike T was contatted in the ming feveral #4mea that I should awing over to UM! and that I c eoc lg wages ar cbnditions would be better. Their names were bot vut I ean't recall their ladt fames at allé They never, threatened me at all. I fever heatd why Mine B would not Sign & contract with PMA TI don't how anything about the moating, ‘hat wes held the_giz befors the strike but I believe it was a spocia meeting anc @ told me about 1# but I did not go it i G@id not know Po was foin#g tos strike there at Mine and I loft my tools and things all thetes was told thet the strike was hed be- cause the Mine B men would not firg same expelled men afd the strike was not over any wage quettion. I dcn't kmow anything about the dard being loaded short. - "At the mine 3 or 4 tines I signed something but t guet don't know what it wes but I imew it was in favor of PuA that I aigned for end I did not sign up ther, for UMi. I traver was contacted to join any UMN local in 1937, and I don't iknow anything about ite I recall that I went out to Kine 3 once or twice whef{ they tried to reopen but I don't recall what happened or how I learned about it. I stayed at Mine Ba fow nights when thoy hed ea sit down atrike. Io was not forced to but did not bring in any outside minct# at all end just the local wat there and the Sheriff and his men. f wos hal ping on farms then too 86 was not very active et all in thos mattefa and I never pid much ettention to what was going one 1 voted teide for NLRB elections and I voted FMA both times. I signed over tc UM! because I had to in order to told my jod and I still liked PMA ind voted for them both times. As far as I know the elections themsclvas Weta Alright and they were by secret |] ballot ef I recall. 1 afd not g> bath to Nine B when they tried to open it again after the NLRY elettiob the first time. I don't mow why Ejshoff would not alén the rh aithe most of us were PMAa During fall of 1939 I received & letter from Kine B and they told me to come back to work, I went out shd went to work Tight waye I don't recall whet they asked me when I euma back. I do know thet they dia try to hire more UM! men than PMA nen. We pot the union scale for wages I know but I don't know if they said anything about that to mes _? POWLGREEN (phonetic) and Severn] othera contacted me in the mine and they told me that if I didn't eving over to UMV I would not have a job. I never wie beaten up hor thtertened. TI was not bothered by the UM/ men but I did hear that other PLY men were bothered a lot. -/Cudge" (phonetic) was another who would tulk to us about goving over to iw. ANDY SCHRELEVIOUS, Fnsquale, Tony Photeh, Sirtout and Charles Bohannon, who is Bowlgrear, were arcund and tried to get us to join over to UMW, after the mine opened in fall of 1939, There were a lot of new men ow ne rR Te Re IR RS Tag MEE ae GI Re pee ge cae meer arose gr ae