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ee i ae nm = ee C G 06445 RE: JOHN L, LovIS, ET ab —_ i "T don't bilicve I was contactcd by anyone in July, 1937 to join the UM, local. I heard about it then. I don't know what the apove mentioned fellows werc doing in 1337 or thereabouts. I did not go beck to work in fall of 1937 as at that time I did not do any picketine and I was sick around that tine anyway. We wore told Pil. officials that if we did net hels in the sit down strike that the UIT’ nen would gst out jobs and T vent over off and on a few tines to help then out, At that time I was on rilicf and had to work out some of the money. I was not at mine B when the Marshall cane out with th: injunction. *he sit down strikc was mn ina ver oracrly manner and we were there to protcet the property; and would go back as FRA but would not go bock under IMS. “ec washed the rooms, <uarded the cowder housc, and srotected the sinc crooertz;. “hile I wes around UN dia not bring in any wen to work there. Fil. mcn were in the strike and no outsiders were brot in to hels us. I understand that when the Marshall came out Ps, men left peaccably end thearc were no fights. We were not forced to go on the sit down strike. INTERV. WIT: (contimucd) "I did not go to Mine B in Dee, 1937 when they tried to reopen it. I took part anu voted in the Tirst NLR&, voting for the Fi. I voted for the, of my own frec will feeling that they had a majority anywar, so far as t know ne threats or violence vas used in anyvay to influence the men to vot. Bae Gi wal odo il ne ha MEAS Rig Caray ep wl ek A date we OP ye net at the PMA hall and went to the armory to votc in pairs or ,roups, there Were no stron: aru mcthods used to influence us in the wa: we voted. Voting was be secrct ballot and under the direction of a Government man. I have no rucollection of bein, contacted by any UM men in an attenupt to tell he how to vote. "J dont reseuoer ,oing out to the mine when an attempt ras made to re~open it in Jan. 1938. I dont rceall recieving amr notice to 30 to work as I rcecli it now T just heard avout it thm Fh talk. I am unable to xive any first hand inforn.tion as te what happend at tois atten ot to open the minc. Fron shortly efter this tine on I wns on FuA and didn't take any active interest in whav was ‘oin: oa in tae mine, I heard runor at this tim that #lshoff was gottin; uoney from the Uli, but s> far as I know: no one could prove it, When to mine opened the last time in 1939 I bd. lieve I received a revistcred lettcr fro: Eishoff, in response to this I r- orted back to go to work, dt that tinc the, told mm when to report back to po to vork, As I risorb ur it I had no personal knowledge as to the nature of any e-reenent as to wazes or anything elsc, JI believe howevur that the seale imst heve ber th: sanc es Union vag-s throughout the stcte or clse the ncn wou_d not have gone back at all. I believe that when they were ready for me to conc, back to work sone of the other mine.s in the neighborhood cane br and told mc they were ready for me to cone back to work. “hen the rine was first op ned up everything seencd to me to go along fine and dandy for about a year I bclieve., Prior to shortly prior to the last NERB elzction they