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Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL DR AROS OST T Some onan he or with Hine 8 conditions would be no better and the miners would not get anything. cont inued "J remember that Schrelevious came to my house a couple of times after the mine reopened, and tried to get me to join U.M.W. He Said that I better join the U.M.W., and that if I did not join U.M.W. I would not have a job at Mine B. J told him that I would stay in P.M.A., and then Schrelevious said that soon there would not be any PMLA. i "J think that Sam (Joe Alban-se) came to my house a couple | | of times. J can't remenber his name very well. He tried to get me / } to join U.M.T., and said that if I did not join U.M.., I would get aj / beating. “As long us I was working at Mine B, I did not hear much about the mincrs being beaten up. TJ heard that the rough stuff started after I puit working at Mine B. When the strike started in 1937, I think thet the reason for it was that there wore some U.M.W. men working in Mine B, and the P.M.Ae union threw these men out of their union. ‘hen the company at Mine B refused to fire these men,, the miners who were in P.M.A. struck. "In September 1937 the managencnt vould not let P.M.A. go into the mine, and vantcd the U.N... men to go into the mine. When the company tried to reopen the mine in the fall of 1937, the first day the U.M.W. men went into the mine. On the second day the P.H.A. would not let the U.M.™. men go into the mine. I think that Eishoff got the federal injunction to keep the P.IM.A. men off his prenises so that the U.M.T. men could go into Mine B and work, "In the election in 1937 I voted at the State Armory for the P.N.A. because I liked that union, and I wanted to keep it at Kine B. I did not like U.N... I don't remember signing any petitions in 1937. Wafter the mine reopened in 1939 the U.M.W. men got better rooms and better working conditions than the P.M.A. men. A man known 4, as aan: an air checker, but he never did any work. He | werely walked around trying to organize the men for U.M.™. bce | told me that if I did not join the U.M.¥,. there would be a lot o iu : trouble, but he never told me that ZI would get beat up. However, f Poet S he inferred that I would be beat up if I did not join the U.M.W. He yo. talked to me about three or four times. -18l-