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Re: JOH L, LEVIS, ET al. Lb Fe. 22a I did not know why we wet out, and I still do not know. J heard there was Some trouble about some PMA men being kicked out of the Pi£\ and I also heard rd s rs there wag some trouble about the contract, but 4 do not know which, if any, of these was why we walked out. “T went to the Mine 'B! the next day but we did not work again wtil in Hovember of 1939, when I got a letter from the company telling me to come back to work. J do not rei.ember ever being notified in any way to come back to work befure that time, and after lay of 1937, "T remember there was a picket line by Pls in the fall of 1937, put I was never in that picket line and I have never been in any picket line, I do not remember signing any pctitions during the summer of 1937. I might have signed a PM, petition during this time, I am not surc, but I am sure I did not sign a Ulf petition during this time. "T do not know anything about a Ulf: local being organized in 1937, in about wec., 1927, when Piis beat UM. told me there was going vo be an clection but no one forced or threatened me in any way in that clection and I thought it was a fair clection. "i renember voting in a ational a Relations Board election "shen the mine opened in Nov., 1939, I went back to work and Iwas a Pla. I don't remember when I changed to UM+ but I know I was orc of the last and it was probably near the end of 1940. To ove ever threatened me or forced me in any way to join Ul and I joined because I sidn't want to lose my job. I heard most of thc nen had signed up with UM. so I did. For aoout four months before I signed with UM/ I belonged to no union, "J do not remember whether U4. tried to organize at ifine TR ~ and all I remember is no one tricd to get me to join UN. I never saw alyone get beat up, and I only rerember that I heard some of the Pik men Were beat up, but who they were or anything about them I do not remember, nen I went back to work in 1939 I did not notice whether there nad been any fires or cave ins. > "T do not remember voting in a second 1LRB election. -£5- ae en SR A a apr Re ee ae Rp eee