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me a ee ee Ro vy RE: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET AL. bt bID but if there wes one I would hive signed it as I wes very strong thon for Pda. I wos willing to have Signed anything for FaA ind it is quite possibie that I did sign if they hed petitions oute I dontt know if UM got out & petition or not as no one contihoted me as all knew I was 6 strong PMs mene 1 heard thru the piper tnt UMil formed e new local in summer of 1937 but I never was asked to join ite Some time between May und Sevte 1937 I read in the paper thet ANDY SCURELEVIOUS shot o man und wife in their tevern beoause the man would not join the UM7. »fter the mine closed down Pfs did not have any regular meetings any more but sround that time there wos a lot of stuff in the papers about UMV huving a majority etc. at Mine Be I heard then too that the UMY did have small meetings uround but I never scw or attended then. I also heard that these 13 men got jobs et Jefferson Mine because they had & UM/ local there ond I slso heard thet FALCEITI wes & boes there and socording to gossip CARL ELSHUFF had on interest or was G receiver cf the Jefferson Hinoe During the fell of 1937 I attended © meeting of PMa at which time we wore told that the mine wns going to open the next day or sc under UMT ond thet we should be out ond thet we would be roady to go to work us PiéA and not as UM The t + . with this President of UfI who suid thot if the PMa miners would sign Uf applicutions thet we could go beck to work ct Mine B otherwise we gould not end suid he told this Presid but we would go beck us PMa and no M¥e I clso believe thrt told us that he hed & talk with OSC.R FALCETTI who s.id nothing. telked to us out on the highw:y where we were in o lirge group, tnd Ct this time we did not go on the mine proverty ot 411 und we did not see these 13 men there ct all, and all of us went hame then und no picketing began thene During tho next week or so Fifa held smother meoting und we decided again thet we would still be PMA and not Ulf] end thet we would picket the mine if UM men went to work and in o day or so we £11 showed up at Mine B to go to work and at this tine these 13 men were theres FaLCETTI let these 13 men go dwm into the mine himself thet day tnd we went hane tnd thet sume afternoon we hud another meeting ot our Pita hell end many men were there und it wus decided thet if these 13 men returned to work the diy thet we would picket ond would not let them go downe. at this meoting no force w.s used on us ut ct all tnd it wos with wishes of «11 us miners thut these 13 men be kept out of the minee ach of us hid & voioe in this m.tter and no Pil, official told us we had to do somethings “Ye men ran thit loo.l ond we had the voice in it ond there were u nice bunch of men there in local 54¢ The noxt morning we bottled these 13 men up in the ooal office tnd they stiyod there till that cfternoon when the Sheriff eame out and let them go -71- weer gee tee tr erm a ee te meee are re ee