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bIe STR call, found that it consisted of Dominic Pasquale, éndrew Skelevieus, Joe Jarvis, Tony Plotch, John Ananias, Jr., and one or two others who had not gone down into the mine that day. These men had vellow slips which hey said were contracts $i ey Qe: the Progressives, enc Wf "Yor the operators, These pieces o developed were United Mine werker opposition in our Prop had nothin whi ch reflected the agreement _ : and it appeared that they were pur pose y try~ 5 re of the actual situetion in an effort to create trouble and to cause a strike at the mine. In this matter, the company made no effort to insist that these men go to their work. In fact, I noted thet the bosses reported to the ming this day, April 7, 1987, without their dinner pails, which indicated to me that they did not expect to go to worke “In view of the fact thet it had been reported by these twelve spies that Felcetti had told them thet there was no retro-active feature in the agreement signed with Elshoff, I personally talked te Falcetti, at which time he did not deny that he had told the men this, and I told him that there was a retro-active cleuse in the agreement and that the company would live up to it end that he, Falcetti, was not going to keep these men from going to work on this morning, which was April 7, 1937. From the attitude of the management and these twelve men on this morning and the previous morning, April 6, it was more or less apparent that the company was working with these men to strike the mine and put the Progressive Organization in a bad light. "On April 5, 1937, the Joint Scale Committeer urrived at an agree- ment thet any wag vil] date from April 1 1937 pril 9, 1957, tentative agreement. at this time, * as spokes- man for our group, No agreement was signed at this time, but the matter was taken under advisement by Slshoff and Falcetti. "On Sunday, april 11, 1937, I went to Mine B in company with a to talk to Eishoft end Faicetti on the second tentative ‘Eisnoff claimed he saw no need of a second tentative agreement, he will abide by the one he signed on April ee "On April 12, 1937, I heard rumors that individual members of these twelve men mentioned heretofore were specifically soliciting member- ship for the United Mince “workers of 4Anerica. This was later confirmed in fact, and these men were expelled from the Progressive Miners of Americe by appropriate action through the Local. I was advised of this by officials of the Local. . ~ 409 «