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Oe C 0. RE: JOHN L. L5WIS, ET AL bie | ) 4 meh INTERVIEW WITH “I did nct go out to the mine the day that the sit ¢cwh started, I did got out there three or four deys lotet, and (centinusd} stayed there on the company proporty for soversl days, until the injunction come and we had to leavo. The men who wero on the sitdcwm were miners who had been working at mine B. There were not o new bunch of mon brought ine | "I voted in th election in the December 1937, That wae a fair elocticn as far es I kncwe. Ne cne asked’me or tried to influence my wte in any weys I voted exactly as I wanted tc, and no one acid anything about it. “I did not knew that they ever tried to open the mine except that one timo in 1937 when the sit down started. During the stri_e I wns una- ployed most of the tine, and workod on the WPA part of the tine. When the mine reopened, I want out there to work, and worked two doys when I finished my room, Ewaos ebout a month before I got a new room. When I went back I saw no indication of any big falls cr fires in th_mino, "Whon I went back ven com san working there in the mine. I do not know what he wos suppe ng. The only times that I saw hin he was wilki ‘fp around with the air testers, ete. He wos talking most of the time to men About joining the UMW, He never had o mon geing around with tho eir testers beforc the mine went on strike. We do not have ony now. wes the only man ot tho mine I heve ever seen going oround in the doy- e@ moking such tests. QMtalked to me about joining the U7. I told hin that I did not wont to at that time. He was tho only cno in the nine who appronchea me on the matter until the day that I signed fp os o Ubi. On that dny I was apprcached by We Imd been told, by ads in the paper, etc, that wo had un c f Jnmray 1941 ¢6 join the Wisi, T joinod up cn that dey when Sm “PPronched Toy because I folt that I would h ve to join in order to koep my jeb atthe mines I knew ~ at thet tine that [would have a chance tc vote on which unicn thot I wenotod, and knew that if the clecticn went for the Progressives, that my application tc the UMW would not moen onything. I signed up for the UMW even thought I really wonted to stey and be with the Progrcasivos. That occurred bofcre the second electicn about the union at the mine. "At that election, they tcld us to go to the United Ball up te vete in a body. I went directly from my home, and voted exac I ploased. No one influenced me in ny vote nt all. nd go “I wos antisfied with the Progressive Mine Workers of Amoricn and to estoy in thet Union, and only joined the UM? in order to keep ny . "I neve read the above stetanant on this pnge and two other mges, It is cil true and accurate. /. Sette, j /*/ (Qe ; Gi. F.B.1- -362= ; Te er CY Se eI ey eg RN gE “Inner SP —gnranhilpmenerem PnP peat a gnglne Seg gag —aPLeeT—P . paige yn --