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RE: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL jo ~ i= 896 is i- wages. I heard there was going to be a meeting the erase) eee night before it closed but I didn't go as I quit then at continued 2 Palla On the day the mine closed I heard nothing about the mine going to close. I did not hear anything about some men being expelled the night before. I know nothing of any cars being loaded short. I was fust leaving when I saw at the mine & other miner: at the mine but I kept on going home & I sew Chee ee into the engine roan but thet evening I heard the men were celled out & I did not kmow of it when I left. I later heard thet the trouble was becsuse the P.M.A. didn't want to work with some U.M.¥. men. After Mine B closed I believe I signed a petition for PNA. & some one came to my house and he didn't force me to sign it. brot it to my house. I don't recsll of signing any rl can’t recall ot signing anymore petitions for P.h.As I heerd that U.M.%. formed a new locel] & I read of it in papers & no one cane to me about it. “uring summer of 1937 I can*t recall anything unusal heopening & I went to a couple of P.K.A. meetings. 1 heard thet some Mine B men went to Jefferson kines. I heard ELSHOFF took it over as a Receiver. HARCLD McLONALD, now deed, was over © I think EMORY JaCA VAY was over there tan T atten Gooner Fh ern we At aelery + 150 nEcra FALCETTI was ore “In fell of 1937 I want out on picket line severel nights, It did~ n't make sense to me in going out. The men were quiet & I saw no trouble. The men claimed they might run into some U.M.i. guys. No one made me go out to picket. Nothing bed ha-pened thers, I never saw any outsiders doing picket work. I wes not there when the U. 8. Karshall came out. I heard of tne Mine going to be reopened but I didn't go out & TI heard of it thru same~ one. I voted at first N.L.R.5. election at Armory in Springfield, Ill, It was by secret bellot. Everything wis 0.K. as far es I know. I didn't see eny Ushisi's men giving out literrture but I saw some standing around. No one told me how to vote. I went to vote right from home. I voted for Peds. Later 1 did not go out when they attempted to reopen it. J heard it was to be opened under U.M.%. so I did not go out. I don't know why ELSHOFF would not sign e contract with P.M.A. but I heard he wouldn't, In fail of 1959 I got a letter to come beck to work & I went out & at time I was on P.W.A. T sew FALCETTI & he told me to come to work the next morning. The_ didn't say a thing about wages or union. After the mine opened there were new men there at the mine. but that wes not unusual, I don't know if they were P.M.A. or U.M.w. I went beck us P.M.A. & kept on paying dues to them for some time. I never heard ELSHOFF s:y he wented U.M.s. back. There were some U-M.W. orgenizers eround & I heard of fights & trouble but neyerwsay any. In summer of 1940 I never signed any cards for P.M.A. or U.M.W. came to my house once & seid they were going back to U.M.v. & tho sy alrady | elected officers & were going to hnve a meeting in the U.M.¥. Bldg. & that I should come up & I told him I would be there & d did & saw only 8 or 10 in there & I left at once. I think the same bunch was there & GMORY JACAWAY. I joined up with U.M.Y. after they won the second N.L.R.3. election. I never sew any preference for U.M.'. over Pallsén For a while thie bunch was telking -17l- cet Mp TER DE SRE Nt tte Deed Dae pret ee ae wea erm ye