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Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL Z ‘ | a box - = PO | “not even under bond. There were 12 men on this board who took care of this money. There were no other out- standing Special assessments outside of the regular dues and assessments for death etc. I know that dur- ing 1932 and 1937 a lot of the members were able to get gas covpons from the loc2l if they had to do something on union business and a lot used to get such gas. . "The officers and other expenses and salaries ail came out of the general fund of local 54. The de2th fund was handled 0.K. as far as I know. If there was any crookedness with the money affairs it could have happened in the 10% levy but I don't know for sure if anything wrong did go on there. The local e xpenses were all read off at the meetings. The PHA officials however_ did make regular reports to the miners at the meetings as to what happened tc their loc2l funds. However, this 10% levy was not accounted for as it was as ecial set up. When the Special strike fund was discontinued by loc]l 5. (RAs * left his job and moved to Michigan. At a special meeting in oOpYtt at 8th & Washington, 211 but 15 men voted to remove th others opnosed j4. 2 ed While we had our Progressive union at Mine B, there were rumors around that there were UMW men out trying to get the PLA to go back to the UM; but none of them ever approached me. During this period there was no picketing at Mine B by the UMY that I know of, I did see some white papers scattered along the lane leading up to the mine once but whether this was UM? literature or not I could not say. I kmew nothing sbout any paid UMW Spies or organizers being in the PMA local prior to the strike. ' 'I never hea a the UMW men or officials. an af an z Ol any "I remember when the contract between the Progressives and the operitors ran out in Mar. of 1937, at that time a temporary tgreement was drawn up as I recall and white slips with the substence of this agreement on them were poseed around among the men, by ig There was no feeling at this time thet the Progressives would not be able to getas good a con- tract as good as the UMY or anyone else, I remember no argunents or disputes L over this. There WAS Never any tr suble at the mine over the Wwegze que stion - so far as I know. I never had Falsetti or Elshoff say anything to me about the agreement between the union and the company, I believe that the company did have some slips showing the nature of the agreement, bot T Gont know exactly what the nature of this was at this time. = 349 = PBB. q