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Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL. VTERVIEA WITH 3 = Fon Tae Mpany To com oscs I do not remember any “attempts on the part of the Continued). company to re-open the Mine 'B' before that Sno one tried to contact me in connection either with the UMW or the company or the Pua frow Dec. of 1937 until Nov. of 1939, When Tr ed te work at Mine 21 in Nav, 1039. T he ue red turned wo Work ab ane et de ee the wage scale would be the same as the rest of the mines. JI thought the PMA would have a contract with the compan; in the near future and f a s etill = member of I. "From the time I wont back to work in Nov. 1939, until Dec. Jl, 1940, I did not vote in any elections for union certifications, and I do not remember of there being any election. fe] g 4 fo 8 + re 3 Bifter Toiwemt Roel +¢en oumark in Nat 1a Ved 2 WO ERO, UP WU roi AFT 1940 a fellow nancd Ge wno was UW and > was a driver but | did not do much work an now worked in Mine 'B! before Nov, 1939, | approached me in the wash house and said I would have to join the old | one. I told him I didn't know what he was talking about and he said I'd- find out. He might have said it was the United Mine Workers, but I cannot definitely remember. . "Right after that, maybe the next day afte talked to me in the wash house, I'm not quite certain of the date, ' jumped on the motor I was running in Mine '8', I asked what eee ; doing & he said it was none of my dam business and he told me he'd knock my block off, But my boss was there and told to keep quiet and | told me to take out on the motor, My boss whose name I do not know how to spell. a PMA worker at that time heard this arguement. "About this same time a fellow naned EE wns was a UN | mn afi had just come to mine ‘B! asked me to Ajoin UMW and said if I didn't join then I might not be able to get in later, J told him I | didn't want to join then but would wait, “During this time the vompany also discriminated against me by // not letting me work as often as I should have, When I went in to com i} plain to Oscar Felr«.ii he said I didn't want to work, that I was ruwn- 0 n4np around with the progressives. - 507 = a eT REM E ea a ncn ioanatii ateimeetinmte adhe Domnall — a ima SE SR eRe SR arr a ’