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J0m us. LEIS, ET AL Lie Sg INTERVIE: WITH members of Pils in line, I took no interest in as union affairs. During the depression PA had continued unusually high special assessments for unemployed miners, which I did not like, but thore were no wrisually high special aseosements during the time I was employed eat Mioe “E*, I know nothing asout the bombing oasos as I took no interest in then. oc ; , “Puring the tine I was employed at Mine “BY UMi did not set up a picket line nor did U5! distribute any literature. No one attempted to change me fran PLA to UMT Sd Springfield, Tll., a former employes of Jtine » Fo advised me I should chinse from Ply. to Ui! as working conditions would heve been better. J informed hin 1 -vould do what majority of the miners did as I did not care whether 1] waz PHA or UM. ’ : a 7 “J never saw any officals of Ul) with the management of iline *B*. OO "I do not know of any controversy of the wage ecale at iine “B™ in the Spring of 1937. “I did not attend a Pi. meeting on the night of May .11, 1957 and I do not know if I got notice of a meeting on thot night. "Sometime during ay 1937 a member of the pit scarmittee told ne that thero was going to be some trouble as sone nen at the mine wanted to change fran PiA to U7. 4 few days later a renber of the pit camt- tee advised me that there was to heve been no work the next day as there was to have been © strike. I was not told why there was to have been a strike nor did I ask. The following day I returned to Ifine "BY as a picket but I did not return as a picket any other day. “The last day I worked at iline "B™ in Tay 1937 I did not see any coal cars hoaded short nor did I see any other person load coal ears short. IJ did not know many persons at the mine as I had worked thero only a short tine, thereforo, I did not know whot was going on and I knew no one who would tell me. “I did not sign any petitions in the Swmer of 1937 and no one threatened me in the Summer of 1937, “3 *I obtained employrent at the Peabody Mins, Springfield, Tlie in fugust 1937 and lost al) interest in Iine “B™. “ "In Sept. 1957 AEB -cvised me line "BY was to open az eae UN mine so 1 returne work a8 4 had to join Uiii when I was