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iz & C C Rer JON L. TE WIS, ET AL — SO /ee . bn INTERVIE : VITH "I did not know of a wage scale controversy in the Sprinc of 1937. Ccontinuecy "I did not attend or know of a meeting on May ll, 1937. morning of May 12, 1937 someone told ne that five miners who 8On the saetnon momhaowst & . : . 7” wero menbers of Fuk were expelled because of their activities for U.M.".} that Elshoff would not discharge the men. No mention was made of an intent t- strike that diy. I heard that the men expelled were Andrew Schrelevious, Dominic Fasquale, Tony Plotch, Cherles Bohannon and Frank Austin. TI worked all dcy May 12, 1937 and upon leaving the mine I was told that the nine wag on strike 38 Elshoff would not discmrre the five men expelled from PhA. I gid not load any conl cars short thet day nor did I see any coal cars loaded short thet day. "T do not rember if I signed a FLA petition in the Summer of 1937 or not. I kmov I did not sign 2 UL) petition. NI did not know of the formation of a new UMY union in the Summer In Sept. 1937 someone tcld me Mine "B" was to open, therefore, a work on the day the mine wis to have opened. Only UMY members nt t nto the mine so PA members set up a picket line. I acted as a a é few days, tut did not stry at the mine as a picket but a few days as I had work to do at hone, No one threatened me if I did not act as a picket. I do not know why PiiA stoped picketing Mine "BM. we nt ck "I did not know of an attempt to re-open iHine "B" in Dec. 1937 ‘and Jan, 1938. "I voted in the NLRB election Dec. 15, 1937 for PMA. I thought this election was fair and I voted at my own free will. "In the last part of 1939 I received a letter from line "BY setting forth Fine "B" was to open. I went to work a few Bre later. Several months GLvor + 2UV a le voy); ee, Mine "BY and asked me to Se ead not threaten me. A short time later they returned to my room and asked me to join Uw. I informed them , I did not want to join UM’ and they told me they did not need me as there | zere plenty of ULM] members at Mine B. During 1940 I saw several fights. \ In Feb. 194] someone cut my clothes up when I was not present. in Feb. | 1941 I saw holdine the door of a small building while someone wes beatine dd man nine inside the buildinc. On the same morning ~251- ee Ae ee ee tLe Sas ¥