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bre 1.7) - 71D Leones, told us. Later I heard the Company said something about 1u & said there wasn't any agreement but I never read the contract. We sure felt that PMA could get as sood a contract as U.M.W. could get. I don't recall any trouble over the wage issue. Some of the men mentioned above said around that the men would not get their back pay. I heard it from them too but T ramntt ware?) gost who 34 was that tala mm. T can't recall of manarement a wosl vd Dhow d so oaks A ire Se oe Se wad a nee ween 2 saying anything just before strike about wares. I did not attend meeting nicht before mine closed. Some of the boys told me on 5-12-37 that mine was closed & that I shouldn't go to work on my night shift. 1 can't recall why strike was called & 2. days later I went to work at Kine A till Apr. 1939 & then I went inte [eee I recall signing a petition for PMA & no one forced me so si zm it. I don't recall of signing Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL any other petitirns then. I don't resell of U.M.N. forming a new local. I never went to Mine B after it closed down & I quit as a P..A. at Mine A. I voted at N.L.R-B. election & vent dom from my home. It was by secret ballot. I saw a few men near the Armory civing out papers but I didn't take any. It was an honest election & I voted for P.lia. I never attended the sit down strikes in 1937 as I was at Mine A and I don't know what happened as I left in Mey, 1937 at tune B. "I have read this 4 page statement and it is true & correct to the “ast of my recollection & I have signed it of my ovm free will. . (17) Springfield, Ill. Seot. 7, 1943" - 381 -