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Aa . . - * “ae f } aye . of : ne ad : Ld a - E70 bw INTERVIE! WITE a something we told the Pub officials and 1 {contimod ) would be brot up et a mooting --i-- -~ “ay, me and voted upon and no one forced. or told - hor to vote. - : ; . . "T used to attend tho FA mectings once in awhile and 4 they aia ‘not » fine us for not attending. FT personally don't think the Pus men had anything - to do vith those bombinys but I don't know who did it, I hav. no knowledge . of the money affairs of FEA but always fclt the Pua officials were doing righ" with the money, _f "About 4 or 6 months prier to the strike some of the Fld miners would go to the homes of the IMA mincrs and would sive thom a card and ask _ them to join over to the United Mine workers. I recall that on several t {DY SCHRILDSVIOUS sneaked into my yard and celled mc out and on oné tine wanted mo tS sign a card which he showed mec and when I sai it was from the J © United Mine workers I told nim I would not sign it and that he should “ff out of mr yard. He did not try to explain the card to me at all but he d not fool mz, I also told him thet h: ouvht to quit doinz that othcrrise the F4 will catch up with him and throw him out him and he said to me never mind, If] never lose my job there." Andy never talked to me in mine about this but just in my yard. I never received any literaturc re ini? before Mine B closed. I don't recal. of any picket lincs at Mine B prior to 1937. I don't know of any parties that wer. given by Bishoff or Tia men. - ; "I don't recall anythin, about the contract running out in March, 1937 as the Pts men and officials :andled that matter and I can't recali what they may have said about it as I didn't attend many meetings, "I never knew of any troubles at B mine just b-forc the strike eanc. However, just before the strike happened I remenbcer that ANDY SCHIULEVIOUS got up on a bench in the wash room and told us that we 811 shoul: vo and strike and he was talking somcthing about not g.tting enough wazcs, This was the start of the trouble. Some of us miners told him to shut his mouth as wo uuiners did not want to sirike as we were all satisficd with Pia enc with the wages werc were getting. As far as I know I don't rocall what the Pua officials cid in regard to the wage question. I was not at the mect- in. «hon they expelled the epics and the next morninz at the mine J was ‘told by other miners that sume of thc FMA men had been expelled. T recall that FREK. AYSTIN vias one f them who was x elled and I canft remcab ur who the ethers werc, I heard that morning that these mcn all show.d up for vork alth they vere sup osed to have becn fircd. I romomber that on that mornin, the _ MIT COMIOTEE and the prosident of Local #54 sav Frank Austin getting read~ to go down into the mince and Austin had his headlans on and he haa a whip in his hand as he was drivin; mules. I walxed over to austin with the comnitt and thc president and they asked “ustin where he was going and bustin said that it was none of their busin:css and he cursed at them and hed his whip up as tho he woud hit them so they all walacd avay. I actually saw this ~ Ly 3 if a : o , a . ” i - : : fs tay s . : ee toe ya eo , an . pan waty a : o . ol le ose OT geal Se he Tee fee