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o e bye ko, awey from the minee From then on we stayed at the Mine 83 until the Marehall oame out with his injuno- tione That morning when the a en were at the shaft getting ready to go down . (phonetic ) of our Pit Committee told Falcetti that he sure mus p & blood thirsty S=- om 8 be--=— to do what he was doing. Otherwise there were no fights or trouble at all theree I stayed at Mine B day and night except once & week and it lasted for about two months. The PMs officials saw to it that we had good cots and good food and even gave us smoking equipment. There was no trouble at all while this picketing was going one No oute Siders were brot it and the men were just from the Looal 54. ‘le did this picketing to ‘protect our jobse No one was forced to picket at all and we ali did it of our own free will. PIA even furnished us with gasoline while we were out theree While we were there no UM men oame around at all. While we were out there we heard sanething that TMT WRE Coming out with # bunch bot they never shoved un. Wes GNA Go TAG WAU eee Vd a Uy OO DUS Ee played ball, cards otc. end I took care of the boilers. We shaved and took baths etoe und the Sheriff came out once in a while and wives and friends of ours would come out and visit us and there wes no trouble at all. I think thot there were about 400 of us out there most of the ting he average About 7 Dee Ot night the Marsholl came out and oe Ss : gp vor us to leave and about midnight oll of us were gone — 26 no fights or anything und we felt pretty bad about it as we felt that we hod lost our jobs und the Murshall said that we sould not came back on the premises. Saveral days liter the Marshall “aft some ee papers at my home und I have shown then sont inued | to Agent: 4 und and it is addressed to me und is in conneo- tion with a suit brot by Wine 3 Coal Cos agtinst the PMa und I will huve this paver in my home all the times «a few days leter I rosd in the paper that the mine was going to reopen ond I heard thet only « few went out out I never went oute around that time too PMa hed severe] local meetings and we were told to stay uwuy fran Mine B bectuse of the in- junction und that is why we did not go out Gs we could not go on the property. At the first NLR3 cleotion held in Springfield, Ill., I voted for Pua ond it was by secret ballot und no one told me how votee Just before wa voted we hud & mveting at the PMA hall unct to us ond suid thet if there were uny men in the hall who for UMW und felt thet woy thet they should go ahead end vote UMT end he scid to us also thet imcsmuch os we hed stuck together so fer that we cought to know what we wanted end thut we should vote the way we wenteds He gove us a nice talk und did not threuten us how to vote nor did he or anyone else tell us how to vote at alle It was decided at the meeting that we should go cver and vote in groups of 12 or so and I recall thut in the group I went with that ut the corner of tho armory at Second Ste, in Springfield, Ills I sew CH»RLES BOH.NNON end the other 12 men sround there und they were giving out literature end I took one but don't just reooll what was on it. I voted for Pia tho at that elections T also wos ne of the man who wont out and helped ourry in -~ 72 < noe eg ene eee cE apm Te a me RT em ne ce ae we ee a en el el