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RE: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET aL bo Ce .‘VITH I went to the mine that day I believe someone came and told me they was going to reopen. I did not work that day and don't know whether anyone worked or not. I was at the mine about 10 or 12 days during the strike, we were there to protect the mine and our jobs. I never saw anyone there but local 54 members. I went out there of my own free will. I was not at the mince when the Marshall came cut. continued "I did not go out when they attempted to open the mine in Dec. 1937, TI heard of it but did not go out. me i wes not forced to was by secret ballot and "T voted at the first N.L.R.E. vote end I voted the way T want® . The as far as I know was honest. ele on lee n eti e tion "T don’t recall anything about an attempt to open the Mine "B" in Jenuary of 1936. "I know that some of the men from Mine “B“ were working at the Jefferson mine in 1938. I don't know who they were though. "Th most of 1938 and 1939 I wa thing about what may have happened in re no interest. Ae Add i £ AUS ITE : er ar the Mine “B" then I took s 0 ar Wis to ma o1 wm ‘“Ahon the Mine “B" opened in 1939 I rcecived a registered letter telling me to come back. TI went out on a Monday and went right to work. I understood that we were to get Union wages and I was paid Union wages. I psid dues to P.M.A. for some time after going back to work, After I went back to work for a while I quite psying ducs to P.M.A. end made up my mind to join UlMone T stopped paying dues to P.M.A. because I did not like the way they were handling death benefits. "I joined U.M.7.. of my own free will nobody forced me in any way. I think this was after the end N.LR.B, election. "T don't recall signing any cards for cither U.M.i. or P.M.A. tho summer of 1940. of "T wote in + a VOved in tv 3 cti of my own free will the way IT wented to. Thi ballot and was entirely honest so far as I know. "There were some falls and slate in the mine when it re-opened but they got, coal out of one seotion of it in about 3 days. I ikmow nothing about mny fire at Mine “B" in 1939. I was not at the meeting at which = 323 <