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RE: JOH] L. LEVIS, ET aL. & 7 7 . L y & oripple who voted and this cripple, mune I cen't ; recoll, head wanted to vote und he phoned the presi- foontinued) dent of local 54 und usked if some one sould came out ond help him get in to vote, His nime wos (phonetic) and he had beer. and I and several others went out to his home end help armorye He voted of his own free will and no one fcroed him to vote but he voted because he wanted toe This was an honest election und expressed the true wishes of tha men. A short time after Pua won this election I read in the beper that Mine B was going to rcopen under UM/ altho Pla had won end I went out but did not go to work and as I reonll it they wored for @ short time till NIRRB sent their decision buck und then the mine wes closed agnin until fall of 1939. "Even tho PMa won I hoard thru gossip that ELSHUFF would not «llow any PMy men work there except Uf mene During 1938 und 1939 I worked on ‘Wa and I recall that nothing unusuel happened then while Mine B was closede I heard gossip then thet JOHN L. LEVIS wos paying money to ELSHOFF and I felt that sume wey boctuuse I know that ELSHOFF wes & snodl cpor.torlundidid nut hove uny noneys..I cleg know thot ELSHOFF hed worked &@s & coal sulesman for the Rush 3rowory Coe, und hed cherged too much for coal after the first World War und he wis fired ond suit wes brot against ELSHOFF. "I got a registered letter fran Mine B telling me te report | to work within 10 ind wont back to work ot once in ~ my same room gee o ono asked me wht union I belonged tos he sid nothing but give me check Noe 148 and I went right to when I sturtede No one told me what wuges wos to be puid but I had heard th.t we were working under the UL contrast and he would not eheck off dues, I mecn ZLSHOFF would not, und I peid my BMA dues my~ self every month. I heard thet ELSHOFF hed scid to the Pita committees thet he would never sign 4 contract with Plk.. «ft first there were not muny strangers working thero but ebout the second weok or so they hired new men und they wero only UM! men. ele rie works These sume 13 nen were &L8d working they never hed an “cir mun™ ond But when I wont “back to w Woy ae id s hired es an “sir men” and he vent around the ming talking to the men to join over to Uft and he would come into my room st the mine but he never telked to ma nbout it as he mew I wes too strony for PMs : =~ 73 = wpeep ee ip rrmear peeeme re — ere Delle aie a aia area Oe ed i Ss