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z * Special aponts, F.3.1. INTERVIE. VITE § . "In the fali_ of 1937, I went out to the (contimed) picket line at the mine. We were told : by the P.M.A, that we were picketing to keep the jobs for ourselves, and away from the U.M.W. All the men on the pickct linc were Mine B men. One night a man came to the mney and told the men to leave. All left quieily. ' 4 tabout two weeks after the rine opened in 193°, #aainm me to come back to work. A short while-after I started work, Pasquale ceme to my room, and tried to get me to join the D.M./. He told me T RWOL lan't be ahle to vork at tho thine if tdn' t join the TD, LW. He didnt t told pays i> Oe Wa al wae eS Id threaten me, and I never was hurt, elthough I did hear of men getting beat up in other boxes, NSomotime later, before I jcined U,M.W., some man, I think it yas Sirtout, told me I rouldn't pet uy track laid near a well and I wouldn t zet a good room, unless I signed With the U.N, I had to iay some of the track myself. I joined the U.M.,, because Sirtout told me I would have better conditions. This is the cniy reas on 1 joined ULM." : ae 2 ard wouldn't zet a joh answherc else. J liked the PAL, ‘and T Was 62 fied with it, although, as T said bcfore, all unions arc the sane to me. In the clection of December, 1937, I votud P.M.4A, because most of the men scemed to want it. In 1941, I voted for U.M.V, at the eicetion, because I was & memb:r at that time, and because I didn t want any more trouble at the mine. "T hove had the for.zoing, consisting of about three pages, read to ne, and I swear it is the trutn to the best of my mowledgo." /s/ Weitnesses: Springfield, T11." sat meen £ eA