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k. 1 z i i a te ee ot en rere een — aon Ra: JOHN L. 1é1S, ET al Lb ri A 7 bp don't know why the miners struck that day. , "I don't recall that anyone of the U.%.7. tried to get m to join that union in the summer of 1937. I remember that I was in the picket line at xine B in the fall of 1937. I did not. have to go to the vicket line. I went because I wanted to, and because i h.d nothing else to do. I went to the picket line a couple of times vith men from my neighborhood. I think that only line B men vere doing the picketing. There vere no outsiders. "As I recall, I joined the U.!!.°°. about 5 or 6 months after I vent to work in Mine 3 in 1940. No one forced me to join the U.M.%., but I felt that if I wanted to work in iSine B, I vould have to be a member of U.K.T. : "This statement consisting of this and one other t:peritten page has b:en read to me and I stoté that it is trus to the best of my knovledge and recollection. he: - “Titnessess By PEL, Til." sprincfielc,