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ww Re: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET Al baw bY INTERVIE!. 5 exactly what happened. We did not go down in ~~ the mince, and stayed there at the mino pro- = porty for 54 days. At the day of the start ~P 2h oth Be we oe ID me abr +h. at vt wre of the sit down no ane told me anything aucuy why vig Gen Were Tow going to go back into the minc. We stayed out 2t the mine in order to keep the UM7 from going to work at the mine. We were protecting our jobs. The men who were out at — mine during the sit down were almost entirely men who had worked at the ming before the strike. NI voted at the election in December, 1937. That was a fair election as far as I know. No one tried to influence my vote. I woted exactly as I wanted toe vote. I did not know of any attempts to open the ming etther goon befor the election or after it un #413 the wine antualld ded db Se, OE Te ed ee ee ee ty _~ “se til Sas Ae ee Se ey "During the strike I did not have a job most of the I got to talking with onc at Hine B. He asked me to join the Ui, but I told hin that I was srtis- fied with the Progressives. I do not know who this man was. ®I wont back to work at Mine B the first day that it was rcoponed. I resumed my same job on top of the mine. I did not go down int» the mine. I did not hear about any large care_ins or falls, or fires that had sccurred at the mine while the strike was in propress. They brought up quite a bit of dirt after th. strike, but I do not know wht they were doing below, "after the mine opened, I was trated alright. ia and Charley Bohannon asked me a couple of times to feo to the mec Ss but no onc asked me directly to join up with the UI. I did not see any fichts, or have anything done to me, but I did sce sone of the men after they had been beaten up, "I joinod up with tho USI on the lest day that I could join and not have to pay a new iniation fee. No one told me that there was any deadline, but I used to hear the men talking about it in the wash roon, and decided to join the UM7 in order to keep my job. I joined up shrotly before the sencond election. If jobs had been plentiful then as they are now I would not have signed up with the Di but would have changed and gotten another job, becnuse I preforred to stay with the Progressvie Mine ‘lorkers. "I was always satisfied with the Progressive Mine forkers and would have liked to still be a momber of that organization. No one in the Progressives ever bothered m or made mo do anything that I did not = She ~ wru