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Res JOHN L, LEVIS, ET AL INTERVIE’ VITE that dsy the local president of P.M.A., who I think was ee, =< _« aye a2 : a CEST aa jae «°° me thet We weren't going to work in continued ing B any more until the company signed a contract with Palle ite “I did not signcny petitions or papors in the swmer of 1937. I gow in the newspspors thet Elshoff wos going to reopon Mine B in Soptembor 1937. I did not go to Kinu B the first doy. A couple of days ictor, whon I wont to Minc B, I learnod that Elshoff wantod to work with UM. snd I hoard in genere] conversation among tho mincrs thet ho hed signod ¢ contract with U.M.W. In tho foll of 1937 tho Pelieue Mon pi 4 Vince B to kecp Uli. mon from going into the I did not go out to tho picket o go On to tho pickot lino. I sav only jiinc B in the picketing groupe I ween't at linc B whon tho injunction was read to tho mincrse To wore at Mino B ct this tim «0 Elshoff could not bring in Uele™. mon to work tho mings “In thc cletion in Decembor 1937, I votod for Pelleis I saw the noticc of election in tho nowspaper. A group of us wont to tho Stetc Armory from the P.lisdée halle No ons told mo how to vote, and I voted for P.lfi. becouse I thought it wee the best union for my It was more pocooful and quict at Mino B with Pil. thero than it was whon Teti.t. Was thorc, "I recoived & lettor from Elshoff ebout the rooponing of Hinc B in Fovembcr 1939. I wont back to tho mino on tho third or fourth dy, but had to wait for a job for « couplo of woske booauso no room Was roady for mcs a «>: to mc sbout joining U.H.V, Ho said that I should join Usiiere because ovoryonc elso wos joining Dein’. I mysolf know thet I would lose my job at Mino B if I did not join Uesler. T told . coxcararren I hed bocr. working ot Einc B for a long timc, and liked it thers and wanted to stay thero. I told him that I would join tho Ueli.\.6 whon the majority of tho minors joincd. Wos supposed to bo an cir inepootor, but really ho did nothin attempt to orgonize tiinc B for U.lel-e No othor person talked to m about I wont to ® Usiieiis mooting in 1940, and sow o groct many Mine Bmon theroe I thought thet there wes a majority of the mincre thoro. at tho rext mooting of tho U.IL1., I signod up with Tony Plotch who took my applications No one threctcned mo so ce to mko me join U.H..., but I folt I hed to join to savo my job. ~ 155 +