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i ee eae ec nl A, CG - O boae b2D iToD wren mpuvut two or three weeks before May 12, 1937 two members of PM\ were expelled from PMA. (me was onbinuc Joe Albanese but I can't remember the other man ts nan, at the n wey Shanon of some mora menbers were kicked out, John .. ananias, Chaz. hanon , Tony) PSioten, Freak ’ Dominic Pasquale, Deeg oenri and a man néhed Jacawar Jacawar were "all kicked out. But I do not know why these men were kicked “Oute 1 I never heard of any of these men be- ing spics for UMi- . "I do not remember going to a PH, meting May 11, 1937. About this time I knew we were having a little troviie with the company on our wage seale, and tne Phin cfrics. nis told us they were trying to sign a contract with the company anc «sv to get a wage increase. J thought the PMA could gct-us just as much as the Ulat and it didn't make any difference to me whether UMW or Pk. would try. No one from the company ever talked to us about the wage troublso that I know about, "On May 12, 1937, 1 went to work as a di.ger just as usual, I was dressed but did not go down invo the mnes,-. Tho pit Committee of PM: was in talking with the company ard they came out and tid us that there would be no work because the company would not sign the contract. It was our Pil, leaders who told us this. On Moy 11, 1937 we had gone down into the mines, and I had loaded two half cars of coal. The reason I only loaded half cars was that the driver Would pull the cars before I could load them, I was called out at 200 Py the afternoan of ihy ll, 1937, but I do not know why or who told us to go home. It was that the drivers told us that was all, and we should go hom, "Som time after we went out on strike, I signed a Pui petition and I think it was about a month aftcr the strike. I signed the petition at PM. headquarters. That was the only petition I signed and I never signed a UMW petition. "J hoard a ULW local was formed in the sumnacr of 1937, but T do not know anything more about that, Those samc follows who were ex- pelled from PMA were the ones JI heard organized the TMW. No one ever asked m to join this UMW, “During the sumer of 1937 the PMA just had ite regular meetings. I heard of no wildcat meetings going on. "In the fall of 1937 I read several times in the nowspaper that Mine 'B' was going to rc~open, but I was never notified to come back to work at Mine 'Bt in the fall of 1937, I never reported for work wntil about - 294 - . SE ER I em