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Re: JOHN L. L& IS, ET AL. INTEPVIEN WITH names, I told them that I would wait and see how the other miners joined, and when everybody joined, I would join. "On the picket line, after the mine went on strike, f helped watch the mine for mere than two weeks after it closed in 1937, to keep the UM! men from working. “hen the mine tried to re-open three different times, before November 1939, I did not try to go back to work but when the mine opened as an open shop in November, 1939, I went back to work as & PMA miner. ™hen I went back te the Mine in November, 1939, many UM organizers walked around in the different rooms in the mine and asked the men to join the UM«, I remember only the names of Frank austin and Peter Carter who talked to me. These men promised better working conditions and every- thing good under the UMW, but they did not threaten me. lore and more IMT men started working in this mine, so to keep my job I signed up with the If, in January, 1940. I joined this union just to keep my job. I did not want to join the UM. I was satisfied working under the PMA. "I never sav’ anybody get a 'licking' because I was not around, but I heard some PA men got 'lickings' because they would not join the UMy. "T am not sure if I signed any petitions in 1937, I do not re~ member much about the NLRB elections, but I heard they were ‘crooked? because the PMA won the first election and the UMW won the second election, ° —" "T have carefully read this statement and I know what it means and I understand everything written on these pages, It is all true as best as I can remembcr, t Witnessed: vba e - 130 -—