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ra bDD gave it tome. I used it mosth INTERVIEW 1. ITH but for my personal affaires, and I guess knew eo this. I went out with the carde scvera imes, continued) usually with Ido not recall how many times I wept witr I do not receli how many times I got any money from Was every now and aw mika, alsa T Asad want then We Th I needed BOMme, and he would give mé piv or wove id Ulu DVN heave anything to do with organizing or forming the UMW local at mine B. I stayed down there camping and did not oome back until the mine reopened. I cid not even come back to go to work on the day that they tried to open the mine. “chile the stri e was on, and the PM’ men were on the company property, Iwas not out there, but I did drive by several times, I oould see where the FIN’ men had had & machine gun set up there and hidden in the trees and I knew where the men Were hidine with some fee ed ee LSU yg Fema MARS a We Re da ok a ee gune, but I did not see any machine gun, or any guns out there. ®I do not recall vhether I voted in the election at the Armory in December 1937. I voted there once, and I think I voted there twice. I an not eure. I do not think thet the election wee fair, because the - FIW men were the clerks, and counting the votes and all around there, £0 they neturelly would win. uence: mine reopened in 1939 I went back to work, end started sr _ There had not been any big fires, or falls out eo during the ti e that the mine was closed, thet I know of. I do not know whet was going on at the mine in the way of organizings It vas an open shop mine thene JI did not do any organizing after the mine rgopened. I co not know of any organizing thet was going on ov the company property. I do not think thet the compeny preferred eny union over thea other. I am still not interseted in the unions, and do not cere which unioon I belong to as long as I can work, and as long as there is only one union, and not all of thet trouble going on “IT wes throatenod many times by men of the PIW, mostly John $chnoider, but ] was never actuclly molested or injured in any wey, Iwas knocked cut and wae unconscious for throe weoks ebout two end a helf years agoy I do not know what heppened, but I think I was hite- I do not know who did it. I was also injured in the mine when a big piece of con] was laid up against a door that I hed just come through, and it caught the mule and I got some ribs broken. I do not know “I saw a few fights on the mine property, but I do not know why or hat they were fighting about. I did not see anyona got beaten up = 397 = a waoro¢