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er ee wa erm mi a te C O ne. som L. LevlS, ET aL. / nD me /C- la 7 > INTERV TH that I was behind in my dues and they didn't consider me a member in good stinding. JI had worked at Mine B ontinued)} one dey when the pit committee told Falcetti I was not in good stunding at the union and that I should go to the ie aa ang struighten it out, «when I got to the wmion hall I talked tc of Frogressive anc asked him if I could be reinstated. He said Icoulan't start out at Mine 3 while other Progressives were out of work. He more or less evaded the direct question as to my reinstatement and in uy opinion the “rogressives didn't want me to get back in the wion or work at Mine B. "T drew up an appeal from this décision and mailed it to the National | Secretary, Mr. Neck, at Gillespie, but I never got an answer. I was going to fight the cusc, but made up my mond I would never join Progressive again aod in fact was qunte mad at rrosressives. I worked at WPA and odd jobs from 1934 to the fall of i940. "In the fall of 1949, I imew there was a little trouble at the ming & was told by some of the men that United was in majority * that I could probably get a job out ut Mine B. I called Falcetti anc asked him if I could have a job. He told me i could alvays have a job at Mine 8 and asked me if 'I had a card.! He knew that J had some trouble with progresSive and I suppose he was rcferring to that when he asked me about, it, I took it for granted that ne wanted to know if I could get a union: carc in United, “shen I wert out to the mne I was approached by Joe wlbancse who askcd me if ZT wanted to join United. Nobody told me to see Joe, but he wus on top near the tipple and asked me to join. It is ale most a matter of policy for all mincrs wiions to have a man on top whose job it is to see all rew nen and try to sign them up. I joincd the U.M.™. at that timc. I heard that there was a lot of fighting going on at Mine E from 1939 wnitil 1941, but I p-rsonally never saw any fighting. the card, He asked me if I could get a ecard ard although he cidn't say | "I worked at Mine B from 1940 wmtil } ing the time I was the mite and before the election, 7 per y talked to some of the mer and talked to them about joining the U.M.w. In my opinion there isn't room for two unions in the coal mining business anc as far as ['m concerned I would be satisfied if the U onft know of any transactions or ‘dealst which aroused my sus— picions. There was nothing to indicate anything was being done wrong in the local, "J did notice. that durilg the period from 1940 there were a areat miny strangers hired at the mine. . let of them were from tho sout ~2]- Pm am a MEE gn rR eR RE MT mer ae pe pe 8 rn a ee nr cael e yh} , {iv tr \ wr nl he