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le a es ee 7 . “en ra od Re; JOWN L. LEWIS, ET AL. id 7 O/C — oo - INTERVIEW WITH to work they had better sign with UMy. They went to 7 angered whose name J cannot spell, and talked his oining Ulél. "Sometime in Sept. 1937 I heard the Mine 'B' whistle blow one night and some of the men told me Mine 'B' was going to opan the next day. So I went out_to jtine (3! next day, vat the conpany wouldn't ict any one in. fins), eee namc I cannot spell, talked with Faicctti after cettl wo et us work and Falcetti said the company had a contract with Ukiv and we couldn't go down to work unless m2 sipned with Uli. So none of us went down except about 25 UH! mon and we went home, The next day we went back to the mine but none of the U3 came to work so we started a pickct lino which lasted for about 56 days and I was in the picket line all the time. We had no onc helping us pickct cxcept just our Pit, local, and a couple of days before Thanksgiving in 1937 the U. 8. Marshall told us wo had to gct out,so we did, "J do not remember going back to try to work in Mine ‘Bt until rov. 1939. I remember voting in an clection held by the National Labor Relations Board a month or sv after Thanksgiving of 1939 when the Pi4, beat the UMi 404 to 35. to ono tricd to gct me to join UM! before I went back to work in Nov. 1939, In November of 1939 I got a letter that the minc wos going to open and I should come back to work so I wont. In 1937 I had been vurking on the south Bide of Mine 'B' but whon I went back in 1939 the work vas all on the west side. I did not notice there had been any fires or many Caves and it did not look to me like there had been any. 4 7S Wiftcr I went back to work in 1939 the Us tried to organize dorm in -_y Mire 'Bt, a: une of the UM} who would come down to me s three or four Times yy and call me a Progressive son of a bitch and said ‘- if I wanted to keep my job I had to join the tits. QB said he would kill me if I didn't join UM.. _¢é "One day, abvut fuur or five months after Noy., 1939, after ’ had bothered me so much I went to Oscar Palcetti and tuld him t was doing. Falcotta said I had the right to chose any union J wanted vas brought up beforc the Pitt Committee of Pui and he said I . cn I said he tried tu organize for UMJ. But the next moming. when I was on my way te work, ‘Bowling Green! drove up and asked me what the hell I had beer SOINBT Ne Said if I didn't kce mouth oat shut he'd knock my brains out. «nen I got to work that morning ous ; a asked me how I liked ny friend 'Suwling Green." ° * ~~ - 390 - — en A I I EC A LT I SI Sa