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Cc * O° =n6461 RE: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET AL he : a bI* f- INTERVIE! WITH to UM. "IT have nc knowledge of Elshoff__ giving any parties for Ui. officials. "T heard in Avril of 1937 that Elshoff didn't want to sign a con- tract with the Prorressives. JI don't ramecver cf anyone trying to cause any eisturbance cr make us think that PHA couldn't get as good a contract as Uli. ve "I den't ranenber any commotion at the mine over wazes. "I dia not atvend the meeting at which the spies were expolled, but I kmew there was tc be a mecting. The next m-rning I heard talk at the mine that these mun hed been expelled. JI don't remember the next morn- ing whet the arpument was about I think maybe it wes about wages. I rember the miners being expelled fren the union end that the menacpement wouldn't 6xpell them, the miners dil n-t like this because it wos o clcsed shop and they should have been expellei. I remember tho cars being short loaded on ry 12, this w.s dcne because the Company was not going to give back pay. I lcaced one shrrt, we miners did this curselvcs just because of back pay. #hen I went to werk that cay I dic. nct kmow there was going to be a strike. 4s I renembcr the strike w.s called beth because of back pey & becuuse they would not fine the expelled miners. "l stened the P.M.A. potition in Mey of my own free will. We signed £ this petiticn on the rend outside the mine te shew theCo. we were all Pro- mn 3 eressives. I signed znother petition for P.M.A. to show we were still all - FE. Progressive, I signed this cf my own froe will. I never eigned any U.M.W. petition. "Nobody esked me to join the U.M.. loenl fcrmed during the summer ef 1937. I heard th.t seme miners were visited at their home to get them to sign, but no one bethered me. "In the suamer of 1937 I heard that Elshoff had signed a ecntract "I returned to the mine to go to work if Sept. 1937. Sone UMW. men wont down, the Procressives wanted to co cown, FALCETTI told us that if we ‘fo to gc dewn we would have to join the U.M.7. DOUINTC PLSQUALE, CHAS SX BONANOK, ANDY SCHRELEVIOUS, "COTTON" AN/ANIAS, JOE ALBANESE, FRANK AUSTIN, TONY PLOTCH, end ‘I Believe JOHN SIRTOUTS and GEO, & HIORY_ JACKAWAY : and JAMES Wil. went dcwm tc work that day. i Fou FALCETTI thot if he ~ wanted PuMehe mon they would go dcwn but he wou t let than go down. I don't know whether cr not net P.M.As hac had c meeting tc decide what to do. ie - 201 « wom ilies dale te tice ite ie ae a ae ele TS ces a ee re ee rr