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Res JOHN L. LECIS, ET AL. bIe BID | NTERVIEW WITH at this meeting, nothing was accomplished. ae I recall ine bushel “aed be: fo fet men to join u ned tnose men who would not join { U.M.. © He chevatone) NS vo 1 told the boss in the pardon about it. The boss cajjed Falecetti, the super, who fired Even though Lo he was fires, kept coming around the mine every morning. He came into the wash-house and into the tipple. He was fired in December 1939, and continued to hang around Mine B until the election in February, 19414 | Wi had also broken the nose of a man known as = GHB +o he threntoncd I There were no witnesses to this in- 5 but there were witnesses to the incident with a That is i: fired. "One day when I was working in Mine B, I heard some Miners which man war | Thet made me suspicious, day the boss asked me what had been done. The boss sent me into the mine. when I reached the place where I was to work, there were a bunch of men there. They got me to sign up with U.M.%.. Bohannon and Albanese were there. I heard thet it was against the rules for anyone to sign up a man for a union on mine property, or down in the mine. Bohannon and the others . present at this time told me that if I wanted to work, I had to sign up it with U.M... Theat wos in June or Jujy, 1940. I signed up with U.M.T. at nav that time, but I did not go to any U.M.%. mectings. a beat me if I did not come to U.M.1.. meetings. “Some time later I made an affidavit for the P.MeAs lawyer stat- ing that I had signed up with U.M.i.. against my will. Some way the U.M.ie found out about this, even though the P.M,4. lawyer told me that the affidavi would be only for government men, Later oe me that he had heard \ about my signing tho effidavit. He threatened to beat me. I told a committe cman | old Falcetti about what had happened. Falcetti called a was there, cven though he had beon ed. Falcetti to _ off the mine property. That night came to my WH ocated about a mile and a half from my home. aftcY asking me Ma hit me in the he:d and knocked me out for a short\\Y// time. + romember zrabbi he are as I started to fell, pul ing him to the ground with me. I came to, and started to yell for help. ran off, and I followed him to the rond. I saw a car which had a license number on : it, which number was listed to Bohrnnon., I saw thrce other men in the car, one of whom I recog ized as Bill Sirtout. I did not recognize the other ~ two men. «hen 2a came to me where I was working in the field, about 300 fect from the road, he clso asked me if I wes coming to the union mect— ings. and if I would pay union dues. I told him that To wac not going to gerdon Bet eee, LER what I was doing,