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by Special ‘cont s TE anc appears to be above average miner in inte expresses himself well, and is cooperative. It is feltthat he would be a satisfactory witness to testify to those natters outlined in the following statement which he furnished: ee Tll. make the following voluntary statement te eae. both of whom have identified themselves as being Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. No threats or promises have heen made to induce me to make any statement. nT ame to the U. S. in Re and pr«sently iy 2: never "J joined the Progrsssive Union in about 1932 and do not know any of the details as to how it wis formed. I started to work at Mins B in 1936 ind when I first sterted to work everything wis going along fine. Both the officers and men in the P'A seemed to be good peonle and the union was retting along fine with the company. ewe" L was born F ; live at uf : held an office in any union. I started mining in abov "I recall thet in the spring of 1937 the union was trying to negotiat- a new contract with the company. I don't remember any of the details, but I do know there was some question about waves. I know that avout this same time some of the men started t2lking about joining the U.!.7, I don't recall even a that any men were expelled fron the union at that time. I lived ir! and so didn't attend many of the meetings... I just heard that some men Irom United were cusing trouble at the mine. I think there wis around 20 men who were working for United--I think Bohannon and Pasquale were two of the men. These men never said anything to me, but I know they used to hang around the office and t-lked a lot to the others. "YT was working as 3 digr¢er in box@pat the time of the strike. I reenll that there wis some trouble with thes€é men before we started. As I recollect, we only worked about half a day that day the mine went on strike in ‘iay of 1937. I remember that the Progressive men didn't wint to work with the United men, but the company said the United men should ¢o to work anyway. The United aen were saying thet we shouldn't po to work unlzss we fot a food contract simmed. ; "I remember that nost of the men were sending up short loads so I etirted doing the same. I remenber that we were called out of the mine by somehoty before the regular qnittine time. I think it was a progressive