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Res JOHN L, LewIS, ET aL. "On May 12, 1937, I worked with andrew INTSEPVinw WITH Schrelevious and since he was one of the men expelled from Pla, I knew that Elshoff had not Mor oy waid any attention to che Pl. request to dis~ charge him and the othcrs. I never saw any cars leaded short and knew nothing about it, when I saw that Schrelevious was working, I loaded one cary then quit working and left the mine, "I recall signing a Plli petition in the summer of 1937 but I co not recall wost it was about. J worked in the Pt, picket line at ‘Yone B for fifty-si% days and nights. "“Towent to the mine ail thre. tines it attempted to re~open. I ec net recall how I reeccived notice it ras going to re-open. the only miners Oecar Falcetti would let co dwm into whe mine to work were UM members and since they did not nave cnough Ul men, the mine never opened, These Uti members were men who hac formeriy vorke. there and whose names are men=- tionc.d in this statement sit forth above. "In November, 1939 when th: mine opened, 1 started work again in Mine 3. From that time on, the Ui had organizers in the mine, Sometime in 1940, Charles Bohannon contacted me in the mine several times and asked mé to join the Uni, but + refusec. Later, he contactcd mc and said he expected me to join the Utv later aftcr the rest of the men signed up. I told him he would have to keep expecting. Latcr on, I was in the wash house one morning and Charles Sohannon, vere sitting on a bench toxcther. I walke m ™ called me a Son-of~a-bitch and threw a lighted cigarette in my face. I knov he did this because I would not sign up with the UW, I had no other kind of trouble with him, othcr than this wmion trouble. JI reported this to Falcetti and he ignored it. JI went dowm in the mine in the same cage with Bohannon and as I ot off the cage, Bohannon said he was going to soften up my head. I still refused to join the Ut and told him ‘nothing doing'. «. miner nané vas in the cage at this tim, and hearé this conversation. On another occasion, while I was in the wash housé (phonetic), a ULiw member who was not even working at Mine B said, wee's one thing, these men will not be here very long’. I said I might be in the mine for som time. I knew he was trying to start trouble, and I report.d at to Falcetti, Later, Pe pot and brought him to uhe office and who were do ww members came with them, denied ti ne ¢ Sbatement, and a: in front of Falcetti, you have been looking for trouble for a long time and you are going to get it.' Falcetti made | no comment and refused to take any action. Shortl thereafter, in the first part of January 1941, Charles Bohannon and beat up an the wash house. was on the outside =279-