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RE: JOHN L., LETS. OT Any John Sirtcut, Emory Jaceway, Charles Bohannon, and Jones Hale. "I do not renomber the details of the wage scale ce ntroversy. "I cid not attend the PMA mceting om May 11, 1937. I did not knew there was geing to be a FRA meeting on that night. "J 2id knew the next merning by talking with men down in the mine that s:me miners had becn expelled from the Phaé. "On the day cf tha strike I loaded my curs ebout half a ton shorter than usunl. I worked in Bcx ww on the west side of Mine B, “gcth @chneiter, e PLA member, ceme clong the botton cf the mine that morning while we were still in cur cars and befcre wo had gone to our boxes tc start working. He told us to load short cars thet day. Ho did not sey why. At thet time I did not know the rceeson for this. Leter cn I heard that the cars were shorte’ beceuse the miners who had been expciled from the FLA went to werk thet morning. WT mie a aAo¢n 4 Us y Vu eles Je ok JU strike. "T do not remember signing any petitions in 1937. “J went cut to the minc when it tried tc open in December, 1957, end January, 1936, On the first cecasion I went to work for one day end only about seventcen men went dicwm in the mino, sc it closed agnin. I wont back to the mine in January, 1938 ond worked two cr three days. 4&bcout seventeen cr twenty men went to wrk at this timc, but there were not enough mon to werk the mince. “In Decomber, 1937, ond Jcnusry, 1938 whon the mine tricd to row cpen the nen whe went dcwn in the mine included the men named in this state- ment. Feur cr five Progressive men went down in the mino cn these cccessicns. One of these FilA men wos noned I do not remember who the others weree I fowmd cut about tho mine ré-cpcning on these dates frem notices in the newspapers. "In the Surmor cf 1938, I wont to werk in tho Jefferson Mine. I then joined the Uhiw. “In Novenber, 1938 I rcturned tc work at Kine B as a member cf the Uw. I left the Jefferson Kino in Junuary, 1959. I was cut cf work from then until November, 1939, - 137 -