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bre Re: JOMN L. LEWIS, ET AL bb? D ~ INTERVIE' OW ssid they wouldn't work with those men who were working for UMW. continued "I went to work the next morning but nobody went down. At that time I didn't know there was a strike and that is why I went. ‘then I got there I found out there was a strike and I remember there was some ciscussion about a contract. "I don't remember signing any petitions during the summer of 15957. I might have signed, but I don't remember, it is too long. "In September, 1937 I h-ard the mine was going to open, I think there was a notice in the paper. I went out on the day it vas to open, ready to go to work. We didntt ¢o to work though because it seemed as though the U.M.0. men were going to work. We started a picket line then, the fcllows said we had to stay to protect our job. I was there until the injunction was served by the UT. 8. Marshall. I would come home once in a@ while, I was frce to come home whencver I wanted to, Nearly all of the miners werc on the line. In on. way I felt glad when we were told to go home, I was getting tired of staying there. The only one I was mad at was Tetlene for I folt that they were the onss who had made us get out, "TI voted in the NLRB elcction in December, 1937 at Springficld. I wont to the Union 211 and a fow of us went to the armory and voted, The election was nice and quict and there was no trouble of any kind, "I did not go back to the mine again until it opened up in Fovember of 1939, I was notified to go to work, I don't remember how I wos notified, I went back to my same job and for quite a while things were quiet, After I had been working for a while Sam Albanese tried to get me to join ULM... He told me I would be surprised to know how many belonged, He didn't threaten me, however, anc I told him I wouldn't join. "Later another fellow named Cee to get me to join, and I told him I wouldn't. He tried to get me to join_U.M.¥. and followed me sround where I vas working. Fis last namc was Saas cae or something like that. He did not work at Mine B before the e and he Caesn't work there now, I told him I wouldn't join and he grabbed me | by the neck and pushed me clear to tha ground. He fold me he was going 'to cut my hoad off and I was scared. I grabbed my lunch box and ran out of the mine. I told the pit bess «hat had happened. JI also toid Oscar | Falcetti what had haprengd. This must have been in the fall of 1940, “ Falectti 2isked me if I knew who the fellow was but at that time I didn't know who he was, Falcetti told me to work in another place in the mine but I didn't want to chanze. Falcetti then gave me a note to the pit bossa \ and after that this fellow didntt bother me anymore, although I saw him in the mine. That was the only time I was ever bothéred. “hen E prabbe® me he had an axe in his hand, were ee RR ame em Tamm mr Ga grace meee ae emma ae