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RE: JOHN L, LE IS, ET AL knew anything about the money matters of the Union. I don't Imow whether the P.M.4. men sent to jail for bombing were guilty or not, I never saw U.M.e«. picket er distribute literature at Mine B. I never saw any "ZT kmew the contract ran out in the Spring of 1957, but I don't know vee did about it, one time we were gcing to work and the next thing we went on strike. The men vide~si ocd a temporsry agreement had been mede and were satisfied with th. xey the officiels were handling it. 2 "T don't rerssaber any P.M o.. mootiac tu. night before the strike and don't think I wont. I was home the co- the strike started and some fellow ceme toe me an: .cle me the: Mitie b was on strike we went over the next day and stood er:..d. To lan t sac. wiy tne mine was shut down. I don't remcembeor anything cbhouc car. wever beine loaded short. ? ~ . . : . . e "I don t remerser signing wy petitions during the sumicr of 1957 for ¢ither 7.u.n. or ULL. "l don't remembor the U.M. . fomcing a locel in Springfield in the sumaer of 1957. "T wont to the mine in Sept. 1937 om sbout the 2nd or 3rd day of the strike. J went cf my ovm frec will and we were just there to pro~ tect our jobs. "Iwas at the mine most of the tine th. strike was on. No one wes there but the local P.M.a. men, everyehlug wes penceful and quiet. I was there when the Mershall came nothing happened except. we went home. "T heard thet they tried to reopen the mine in Dec. 1937, some- one told me of tris but I did not go out. "T voted in the first N.L.R.B. election at the Armory. we went there in groups from the Union Hell, I voted P.M.A. as I belonged to that union. I voted of my owm free will & the way I wanted. + think this was ae good election. "I don't recall anything about any attempt to open the mine in Jan. 1936, "T Imow nothing about why Elshoff would not sign » contract with the P.M.A. ~ 365 -