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¢ O Res JOHN L, LEcIS, ET AL. , . b?c- bID . ae INTERVIE.. UITH "I signed the PMA petition of May 26, 1957, because I wanted to show that I was a Puli member, I signed continue it near Kine "B" while I was on the PMA picket line. wane? , fon September 27, 1937, when the mine tried to re-open only @ few men attempted to go to work. The PA men did not try to stop these few men fron working, but no one else would work. I remember thet the men who went to work on this morning were the men whose names I mentioned above iu this statement who were Ukiw organisers, but iii: not there. "I pelieve I signed one or two other PMA petitions in 1957, but I don't remember what they were about. "y can't romombar if I went to the mine when it tried to open in December, 1937 and Uenuary, 193568. *T went back to work when the mine re-opened on November 6, 1959, I understood we would get our back wages. “shen I went back to work in Novenber, 1939, I worked reece of the mine. It looked like part of the mine had been cleared up a 8 so the men could work. I think one shift could have cleared it up. The air was bad. “Before I left the Mine in May, 1937, I worked in eal then I went back to work in November, 1939, I could not get in because there wes o ceve in there. All my tools were buried, "It looked like Elshoff never tried to fix the cave-in on the because the day I went back to work they were pulling the track out of the and they would not have done this if they had intended to fix the cave-in and clear the BR It didn't look like much work had been done to put the mine in working condition at the time I went back to werk, "shen I returned to work in November, 1939, I worked as a momber of the PAA union. ®Mme or two weeks before the second N.L.R.B. election held in February, 1941 I changed over to United Mine workers union. Charles Bohannon. oC °° to my house tweice just Before the seco wUakeB. ELection and askod me to sign up with UMW. The ~O first time I didn't sign. The second time they told me I was one of the Doe last to sign with UMW and I signed. They did not threaten me or give me . Po: money, but I had secn Bohannon and Sirtout ‘bedt ‘up a PMA miner just cutesae // the wash house at the mine about a woek before because he would not sign ~ 278 - ! | |