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f F C C Re: JOEN L. LEVIS, ET AL o lb x te & INTERVIEN WITH interested in the UM’ and was keeping track of the thince hat they were doing, but I would not have wanted to chinge continue unions at that time, "I did not know of the formation of the UNW local at mine B. i cid not go out to the mine the day that it wos opened in the fal] of 1937. I aid not stay out at the picket line when the men stayed there for sever) -:norths,. I was asked to go out, but I told the men that I wouldc go around to tn houses and talk to the men but I would not gO to a picket line, bocause 7 did aL ante thit tk . mot Think Tait it Was a Bate momar an de me st 4a iF my a? Funning THLDES « ®I votee in the election of Decembor 1937, I met up at the Progressive Hall, and went down to vote in a group. Ko one told me howt%s vote, or tried to influence my vote in any way. It was o fnir electicn as far as I know, I voted exactly as I wanted to vote. "During the strike, I was unemployed excopt for what work I could get on WPA. "I went back to the mine soon after it opened and went to the same job tht I had beforo. I still continued to go to the mine late in the morning, and leave oarly at night, enc i did not know much about what was going on aut there. I understood that Several men weré beaten up out there and th t therc wes a lot of orgenizing going on. I knew I da not know wheat he was supposed to bo doing in the ming, WE ought thet he was an organizer for tho UWSi. I talked with him several times in tne mine, No onc ever asked me to join the UMi. I heard that Falcetti had saic that he cid not want anyone to bother the bottom men. Hono of us working at the bottom of the shaft were approached to join the UMi, Severs] of us decided a few cays befors the second election that the mine was going to be Ui and so we went up and signed up with the UM7. “re had not been asked to join, but the old Protrossives had been run out of the mine or had left, anc it looked as if everyone there was a United Mine “orkers, and JI wlways wanted to be with the majority, 80 I joined. "I never hcard anyono connected with the management say anything about wanting the mine to change unions or anything like thet. I did hoar Oscar Falcetti say three or four times before the strike or any trsubie startec at all, that he thought that the mine vould go back to tho Unitec Hine .orkers. I did not pay much attontion to him. J did not hear anything err on Ahiasek bb on Pb cere de BOM width wl VU We Ue "Then I went back to the mine when it was rcopconed, there was no indication as far as I] saw of any fire. I hoard th t there had been a few falls. I do not know of any big falls. = 349 - ee ge ge ele Sg a GT RN TA EE EE TA, -RE le EE aR SS A TO —