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7c Ro: JOHN L. LEwIS, ET AL LID . ae I don't know if anyone was loading vere'with short weights. I think the strike started continue because the P.M.4. wanted the company of Mine B to fire some men who violated the rules of P.MW.4., and the company refused to fire the men. INTERVIEis wiTH "One day before the strikc ipa Schrelevious was talking to me about the did not say anything about joining. "T don't know what rules the men who the P.M.A. wanted fired had Violated, The men were: Joe Albanses, Schrclevious, Dominic Pasquale, Pete Carter, Frank Austin, Tony Plotch, Cotton Ananias, Sirtout, George and Emory Jecaway, and Cherlie Bohannon. Their P.N.A. union cards were taken away from them. Cotton's card was not taken until after the strike. "I remember signing a petition for P.M.é. in 1937. This petition was to be sent to the Labor Board to show that board how many members P.M.A. had. I clso signed another petition, but I do not know whether it wes et the same time or not. It was just about the same as the first petition, and was made so thet if anything happened to the first, the P.M.A. would have the second petition. ‘In the summer after the strike started no one tried to get me to join U.M.ire, and I signed no petition for U.Meie "T think J saw a notice about the mine reopening in September 1937. I went out to the mine to go to work, end found out when I got there that if I did not sign up with U.M.i.. I could not go into the mine. I re- call that Falcetti called off about 15 names of men who were to go to work at that time. They were only U.M.i. men. He did not call any P.M.A. mene Bohannon said that the men could not go into the mine unless they signed with U.M.nw. 411 the P.M.A. men came home from the mine. I got another job right away and did not go back to Mine B. I don't know anything about the picket line. . _ "I voted in the election in December 1937, and voted for P.M.A. because I preferred that union. No one triked to me about joining the ULM... until I went beck to work in 1939 at Mine B. After I started back to work, that's when they started to work on me. ro "I joined the U.N... because I had to to kcep my job, and to kecp ig my good health. I was willing to stay with the majority. It really mekes - no difference to me to which union I belong. If I had thought the UM." had a majority at Mine B after the mine reopened, I think that I would have had no trouble, =97— SR CR eC Ree aia a ea al Oe