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bal Re: JOHN L. LEAIS, ET AL. bie bw INTERVIE:. VLITH do either, and then he hit me on the head with something. continue "I reported the matter to the police, and obtained a warrant against He was not picked up for several days. The case was called for trial about four times. The second ses Daw teint T held ¢, Jesese Hine B at the nace hank time the case was called 20f bil 42 Aa be LEAVE MI Le LI Lae oo The boss told me that if I] wanted to work at Mine B, I should work all dey. On that same day Bohannon esked me if I was going out of the mine at noon. Bohannon esked me to ride to town with him. Later, Bohannon told me that he had changed his mind. I left my work at 11:50 AM, and tried to get the cage going to the top at 12 noon. I missed that cuge by two minutes and had to wait until 12:15 PM, Behannon caught the 1l2 ofclock cage, and reeched the top before I did. when I tried to start ny truck to go to Springfield, it would not start. I looked under the hood, end daiscovered thet all the wires in the distribu tor had been pull eA avt. W Conk ha RA a ee a = ee ee a ee ee cata ee ae ulled fat ea when this case was finally settle, who was represented ” y a U.M.W. lawyer, wes fined $25.00 end costs, “in 1940 the members of the U.M... seid that unless a man joined the U.N. before December 15, 1940, he could not become a member of that union. I then told Tony Plotch that if the U.M.7. would take me in, I would pay dues from the start of 1941. Edmundson at this time said that I hed been a member of U.M.... sinea June of 1940, even though I did not pay ery dues, “Two weeks before the election in February, 1941, I quit working et Mine B, and went to work in Mine & I was still afraid to work in Mine Be "I wish to stute that at the time I told Tony Plotch thet I would join U.M.i., I paid him $2.00, because I wns afraid that I would get beat up if I did not pay some money at this time. nas I rceall I joined the P.M.A. in 1932 when I was working at th. I started to work in Mine B in 1936. - "Just before the strike in 1937, there was some talk about scabs being in the mine because the miners were working without a contract. Bohannon told me that ho was seabbing beceuse there was no contract. No one tried to get me to join the U.M.w. before the strike started. I did not hear anything about the U.M.%., before the strike started, trying to get new members. "I don't remember anything about the meeting tho night beforé the strike started. On the day of the strike, I was working in the mina, and a driver, I can't remember his name, told me to quit. At this time I -96-