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Cc - O S20 b2y - | ; INTER 7 WITH "I don't remember signing our petition of sither the Pi, or the WT after we went out on strike. In about ontinue Sept. 1937, the Pit. set up a picket line, or a sitdown strike, at lfine 'Bt for about 56 days becausc we didn't want the “MT to try to work the mins. Iwas there the whole time, until just before Thanksgiving, 1937, the U. S. Marshall told us we had to gct out. I neter received notice in Sept. of 1937, from the company to come back to work. I didn tt go back to any mine after that until in Hov. 1939 when I got a lctter to come back to line 'B', This letter was from the company. I was on WPA all the time the linc 'B' was closed, "Right after we went out on strike in 1937, I woted in an election which the PUL. won over the Ulli. No one threatencd or forced me to vote and no promiscs were made to me, ",fter we went back to work in Nov. of 1939, there would be men come to work for a few Wecks and then leave, They weran't from this part of the country and had not wWorkcd at 'B' beforc, While they were there they tried to talk me intvu joining IM/, but they never hurt or threatened me. During this timc I heard Oscar Folcetti toll us that Hine 'B! would be Uk and he didn't want any Pti.. During this tine I saw these UK. men beat up the PEs men but I can't renember any names, except I know was one of the UL/J men who was fizhting. No one ever hit me, hen we had an election in about February of 1941, Bowling Green and these other Yi men told me I had to vote for Ulsi or they would beat mc up. I told then I would vote the way J wanted to. "T kept on working at tine 'B’ from Nov. of 1939 until Jan. of 1943, except for about a month and a half and in Jan. 1943 I went to work at Panther Creek mine. Then U.£/ won the election in Feb. 1941 I joined Ul&s and was Wy until Jan. 1943, when I went Pu, "I have had this statement of four pages read to me by Agent ay and it is true and correct to tho best of my knowledge. I cannot write, "His X Lark. "“itness o /s Special agent F.B.I." - 31] - _ man ati SRS NC TT ETE