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ee ee ; ‘ CQ : RE: JOHN L. LEVIS (/ \y" yr INTERVIEN ov some of the other men that way too. 1 remember that they fired me one day for teking an enpty off the track in front (continusd) of my rcon. In years of conl mining I hod ciways teken the cer thnt wos laying in front of my switch.’ There was no rule against that. Sometimes when there wes a shortape of care, the drivers would sny which car belonged to which digger, but there wns no such | shortare that time. OSCAR FALCETTI fired me for taking another digrer's car. The pit committee pot me my job back agnin, after mnking ne promise that I would not take anybody elses empties agin. The very next cay, I wos fired again by FALCETTI, for leaving an empty car on the track in front of my roon. The situation was exictly the same as before as fer as I could see. The pit committee got me my job back afain. “About six weeks before I wes fired, I went to the window one day to get my money. I handed in the stub of the statement to FALCETTI. He pulle him thet if he had hit my hand I would heve sued the company. That wns about the time that the other things 1 have mentioned were happening to me at the mings No we: Asere hafta T #2271 vine shirts et fe. Severe) Gays oeiore « finn Lily qui , I wes havir nf, snares clen fran the w.sh hcuse. That happened severcl tines to me. Thet never happened be- The company knew tht that wis cpoing on, and could have stopped it, but never did. The day before I finelly quit my tools were all stolen. That was the first time that my tools had been tcken from my room during the entire time that I wes working there. I hed a hard tine working there Chat day, and bor- rowed enouch tools to sort of finish up whcot was loose, I had to quit early because of it. The next morning when I went to work I went into the wmsh house to chanre my clothes. I saw coming towards me, but did not know what he wis poing to do. 30 53 a 7. eye, and about the snne time , came up on ne from behind. “hen I wes knocked dow, end did not even let me go beck to get my poy. That was before the second election at the nine. "One Day I acw be orca ete around in front of the of- fice. He wee cursing and acy things about the rrogressives. He snid sev- ernl ti aa Bano Perorroeaives cra no rood. They by.ve cot to zo," Oscar FiL- we le ve ae Waey Caw Ee eee ee ee ee Pe ensu eee Ter ar a CETTI was standing right there where he could hear, ond did not say anything. He juat laurhed like he thourht that it wns a pood idea. *.then I went back to the mine after it reopened, I noticed that - there had been sone falls. I did not see any evicence of any big fires that . had occurred during the strike, ~ 342 -~ apt - eee ee ren en OC ER OO I AL I I DI riec to kick me in the face. They ran ne off 6B the canonny proper: the peg out of the window, and let it fall, and eslmost caught my hand. I told]. fore the troulble with the Unions and the organizing of the United Mine Workers. ¢ * i