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az a ce te cei cl i cee a ~ o° | “96454 C axe Re: JOE" L. LEVIS, ET AL b°t &7D “after two or three months or so they started hiring new men at the mine. I was not present but I heard {eontinucd ) that Faicetti was doing egain the same things about hiring that he had done befcre, th2t is, telling the men who came to ask for work that they «ore nt hiring, unloss they were introduced by Joo albanese or some of the »ther UM. men, I did not see this. iftcr that several times J] was asked to join the United Mins “orkera. I was asked by Jog w)baneso, and clso by a man namec He hed never workec at the mine before the strike. Ec was 8 PPosec to timborman, but he only worked a Littlo bit coach day, and the rcst of tho time he ran arsunc the minc talking to men. He came to mo sevcral times to ask me to join the Uy, I told hin that I would now, because I was a Prozressive and Cid net went to chanze, "IT knov s mm inthe mine, Heo never talked to me about joiming the UM;. Hc hal tho job of air check man. He was supposed to go around anc check the nir. 411 the ti ¢ I had been in the mine before thera noveor hac teen an air chock man in the day time. One of the mon checked the fir at night, Mey bette tein * Lerases wm te th HVE uUNUsusar hay: poned to mo in th e mine after it opened, I stayed rizht in my same room all the time. I know, howover, that when & room ran out, thet Faleetti trosted a UMY better in giving him a new place than he did to 2 PR, Fralectti did that quite a bit after the mine reopened, doc Albanese scemed to run the place. He would be in the office, anc it seex: 2 that whatever he said was done. That was done to a certain extent before the mine went out on strike in 19232, Falectti always seemed to give Albanese the best consideration in evcrything, anc the men that Albanese brought to the mine got the bist places t> work, and were treatod best. "A couple of months b.fore the second election, I came to the mince one morning to go to work, just as usual, It was cold, and dark, I was - walking towards the ash shed with my bucket under my arm and my hands in my pockets. & mame, whe was 2 new man whe had just been hired at the mine, wal. Bome anc knockod me down into tho snow with his shoulder. Bcfore I could got up he and 10 or 12 other men who were hanging around came up and aches me and beat mo. The only one I recognized end knew by name was Cudgf Baumgardner, TI recognizec some of tha other men but they had just been hircd and I did not know them by name, "I got a chance to get up and did, and got away from them, and vent in and told Fclcetti what had happened. He told me that ha was sorry but cid not do anything about it. I called my father up out of the minc that day, and quit. I never went back to the mince at all, The company clerk serv mo to the company dector. Hc checked on my back, The company sent me a letter telling me that the company would not pay my expenses, So I had to - 195 -