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7¢ , 06434 Re; JOPE L, LEVIS, ET AL bo! 672 "During Nov. 1939 or so I reccived a registored letter from ‘ine B.offoring me back my job under an open shop. I understood that wages wero to be the regular Illinois wage senile, The minors did not like tho idea of going back undcr the open shop as FMA was the local there but we all had to go tack in order to live es woe hed becn off for 33 months. ifter the mine cpenod it seemed? as tho UMY wanted to cestroy PMA. PMA did not wee any force to fain members as they always hac the majority. During this time _ many nov outsidcrs came to Wine B and they were UM. organizers two such UM. organizers, one from Colorado -né ancther from Virginia, talked with me end asked why I cidn't join the UMT and «eftcr I told them the full and com- plete story they said Il was right and they quit and went beck to their homes. The management of Mine EB never saic anything to me about which union they favored, It was the policy of the management of Mine B to place PMA men in bad rooms and give thom the worse jobs se that they would get disgusted and quit and whenever o PMA quit or was laid off they would bring in new UMy men to tiko their places. UM. men from*Indciana, Missouri and other states wore all brot in and local men could not get ao job at Mine B altho they were taxpsyers. continucd "After the mine opened in Sept. 1939 some one used to place sulphur rock on my cars of coal and one week I was fined $17.00 because of this but I complained anc it was taken away. It was gossip that the money from the fines was being usec to pay back the monoy loaned to Elshoff by UMi and to pay the ULE, organiters who were boing kept at the | mi gard to this $17.00 fine I wont to UM’ hcoacquarters and s2w to him ana he wont to the supt. of the car night before this ansther UM. onganinur 4 told me that I would | continue tc be docked and the+ I should ke r shut or else--and that | the moncy has to come in. We tolc me thie in Mine B. I feel that \ somo UN men wors putting hur rock on my cars just to cause me trouble as my partner never got fine? ond he was a UNY man, \ o @ 0 y e. -—j or oO "on anzthor case I switched ay identification cards number with my buddy and put samc bad esal with his good coal and I got docked for giving good coal but ry buddy eid not get docked altho his car had bad cosl on it and this proveé that UM! mon werc getting by with cvcrything, "In regard to the next NLRE election in Feb. 1941 I feel that the _clection wes properly held but the results werc favorable to UM. because UIs; had gotten rid of PMA men and replaced Vine B with their UM’ men and thugs. It was not necessary to use any force or anything for UMi to win that election os they had cnough UMy men packed in Mine B t=: swing the election over to them, - 17% -