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Co. O° Re: JOHN L. IEWIS, ZT AL i a INTERVIE 7 Those pamphlets as near as I can recall had to do with eeniidies the fact that we would not pet any retroactive pay. I (continued) was "digging" and when I saw these I knew that the spies were behind it. In fact, I took a handfull of then from ewe was onc of the spies. vr aft the offi Je ain na thea mine and thea affia 4 ny GQ tae Cio ao val 8 saw fom o ULTTA together ‘put. I did See this group of spies on several cccasions come out of FL meetings and go ovcr and meet the UMVA officials. I know the spies personally and they were Joe Albanese, Andrey Schrelevious, Dominic Pasquale, Pete Carter, Frank Austin, Tony Plotch, John dnanias, John Sirtout, Emory Jacaway, Charles Bohannon, James Hale. on April.27, 1937, tlese spies wer2 agitating. This was payday and the first one for work done after the old contract ran out. They were going around talking to the fellows that they weren't getting any back pay and would not as long as we belonged to Pilv and told us we would if we belonped to ULMVA. The yellow pamphlets I mentioned before were distributed on statement day which w-s three deys before payday. a Ps .-) "The PIf’ officials told us we would get retroactive Poy but that the ifne Company said they did not hive any contract to force them to do so. Then the Puy called a meeting for May 11, 1937 and I was called on to testify at this meeting on my knowledge of these spies. At this meeting I believe there were 5 of them expelled from the union. In my estimtion they were given as fair a trial as they could have gotten in any court trial. "Un the morning of May 12, an order was given out to start slow-down. We were loading cars with only 5 or 6 hundred pounds in en em. T he slow-dowm order did not come from any of the union officials ut wis more or less made up among the men, because the klinc B Coal Company refused to discharge the spies who had been expelled from the Fify and the men réfused to work with them. Later in the day the driver told me there was a strike and there would be no more work there go I vent up to the surface with the rest of the men. "Qn hy 26, 1937, I think it was wo were picketing out in the road and there was a card table s-t up and we all signed a petition that re wanted to be represented by PMY, This petition wis got up to see how many of the men had changed to UMA as a result of the agitation by these spies; HTDD £52 mar nt us for collect the WN Act. aad 4 TSpresent us ior coLsecui "TI think the Hine B Company put a notice in the piper thit the mine would open on Sept. 27, 1937, so when ths whistle blew that morning =~584e0 rn a