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fn RE; JOHN L. LEMIS, ET aL ~” 69D a2?4%2. 2 F +h i © Oe a wih sit INTERVIE.: \ITH that there was a str Ye earerypeeeeel men that a strike had been called. continued "TJ don't remember signing any petitions in the summer r United, As I remember it, the company —r. 7 YO OP wis vie tried to open the mine in Sept, of 1937. LI went out thcore and stayed on the picket line off and on until the Marshal came with an injunction in Dec, of 1937. I came home once in a while to clean up and nobody ever told me I couldn't go home. The men ell said we had to go on the picket line or we would be called scabs and maybe we would lose our jobe "TI voted in the NLRB clection in Dec. of 1937 at the d&rmory in Springfield. I heard a few of the men arguing, but I didn't see any fight-~ ing or trouble. *) went back to work at the mine in Novembor of 1939 when the mine reopened T worked at the mine for about 5 or 6 months I think I went back to my same place in box I was ou rk for about I went back when 2 wer Bek to work in Mine B in 1939. 5 or 6 months to Kine B and aske em for @ j tivoerybody said the company had a con- tract with United and a-man had to be a member of United before they would hire you. This might have been in the early part of 1941. When they told me they wouldn't have a job for me right away, I went and got a job with Mine A and still work for Mine 4A. "This entire atatement of four pages has read to me yi P ] and it ie true to the best of my memory. Signed ee Obs + witnessed: Wine Agents, FBI, U.S. Dept. of Justice. + Pa re