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Re: JOHN L. LEXIS, ET sb * hoc LI22 mo to read a statement to the men. He asked me INTERVIEV, “ITH ee teone uct ee asked him s alri nt if I read jt. He said that it was and if I rceall his name was signed et the bottom. I do not remember what was on the paper that I read, but it had something to do with the contract. aftcr I read it the men all wont back to work. "Tho night before tha strikc, or shortly before the stri e there wasp a mecting of the local. JI think this was a special mccting. Tt was 82 long ago, that I do not recall cxactiy whet went on, There was a fairly large buneh of fellows there thet right, They Gid not try any men, they had £1] been tricd before, I wos at the mocting ance they decidod thet they would not go back to work as long 28 the men who had been tried and kickod out of the Unio were still at work. I remember that thore was some Giscussion at that Ti7c. I do nat rember cxactly what happened, but I think the men dccidsod to go to work the next day. I know we Cid, I was working, anc hed filled one car full, Ons of the drivers told me that they were mot filling full esrs that dey, and I told him thot if I couldr't fill a car I wouldn't work, I left anc etartcd home. I was on top whe. 7 enlled the strike. I went hone. I think the trouble was over the fir of those men who had becn kicked out sf the Union. I rceall vaguely that Oscar Falcetti told a group of the mcn while I was there that he would not fire these men until he got some more information on the Wagner act. I do not reell if that was the day of the strike or thc day before. "Aftor the strie, I went home. JI wont back to work the next day, but none of the men were working so I wont on home, I went out the next couple of days after the strike, “hile I was out there I sisncd some papers for the Progressives, I think, I remember signing somthing. I know that I did net sign anything for the United Mine Vorkers. I was a membor of the Progressives at that time. I wanted them to get back to work ag soon xs they could. I was cisatisfiod with the deductions, but I was not doing anythinz about switching Unions or causing any discussion among the mon. I was satisficd to stay in the Progressives if I coulc get back to work. After a few days I ghit going out to the mine, and started looking for another job. i 2 i going on that sumncr. Rie ee on Pace thorc was a picket line. After the men staycd out thero, J » ut there at asnt for a while. : ane tho ¥ ng BS and that it was ny-cuty, I wee not throatened or anything for not Fs laying, the men just tried to talk men into staying therc. <ftcr the job was over I went back out to the mine.