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* wpe ge eevee ee ceeettbe Sa at 7 . , ~ = ' : ww Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET al board member thet called us out /0p and then went home. Nobody told me the mine was on strike, so I went to work the next day as usual and I was then told that the mine was on strike. 3 ate ¢] J 3 om 3 ct * | a ne T is} pla Libateh de aS \ Zila wh "T remember thet about two weeks after the strike I signed a petition for the Procsressive union. I can't remember under what circumstances i simned the petition and I can't remember whether it was at my hone or in Sprincfield, I believe I was on a picket line which had formed in the road a short distance from the mine in May of 1937. This picket lin e only lasted Tho eae Stance iIProm ate fay aii eket i1lne is for a couple of days though. "TY started to work for Mine A in about Yetober of 1937 and am still working at line A. "I believe I voted in the NLRB election held at the Armory in Dec. of 1937, but I can't say for sure that I did. "T have been a progressive for a long time and want to stay propre ss- ive, but it s.ems as though you couldn't be a ~rogressive at Mine B. I have no information to back up my opinion, butI think the company favored the U.M.W I do not know for sure what caused the strike in 1937. I joined the U.M.%. "This entire statement of four pares hrs been read to me ty i wish to state it is true to the best of my memory. “itnesses / Special Agents, FBI / U. S. Dept_ of Justice" -119- ee i ee a gO A RR TO eee te mE me ur tt ge A A gp Tee a a SR OR GS -