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John L Lewis — Part 21
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az: JOHN L- LEWIS, ET AL.
INTERVIEW WITH @gain, and hed some UMM. buttons with hime He
asked me if I had changed my mind, and I seid noe
continu He said that he had come to my room os he had just
gotten o supply of U.M.W. buttons, and wanted to give
mé one. Ho then left, and nothing more was suide
Tepe Janus
mene The driver wus
25, 1941. I rode to work with the usual bunch of
beating hime When this bunch got tired of bouting
into the washhousc, und jumped oo
"I didn't want to havo unything to do with this, so_ 1 went on
into the offiee to get my supplics.s On my wey thore, I siw a
something, coming fran the direction of tho office, bleoding,
ooking as though he had beon boaton up. «after gotting my supplica, I
went to the tippic, got my bucket, then went to tho wosh house to fill
ite ‘When tho buokct was filled, I went to tuko it outsido & put it in
linc, to show the ordor in which I was to go dom into tho mino aftor I
had changed my clothes. Fran the wash house to tho buokot linu it was
neaessury to go through u nurrow spucoe Thorc wore a lot of mon trying
to get thropeh, und it was orowdade ‘ile moved vory slowly, © step ut a
timc es Wim :: right behind moe I don't know whore ho cane frame
Ho wag working ct Hine But that timc, but I hed known hin boforc, and
knew he was an organizor for tho U.M.%e Ho hud buen firod fron the
fur noking trouble. I didn't soy enything to hin, und he bow
gon jor on my cout, und kicking at ny logse I looked round end he
grinned &t mo. This wont on until I get through the narrow place, und
wont and put my bueket in tho lince I thought thot he would be looking
forme to conc buck ints the wash house that wey, so I went urcund the
building, and went in umother ontrunce, I snt down on the bonsch, tnd
stirted te chunge cisthos, to go tu work. Just as I bent ovor to take
cff ny shoe came in, cursed no, und kicked no in the heads He
kicked me soveru. tines in the heed, und then othors sturtod benting on
ne tove I don't kniw who the cthere woro, bootuso I wus um the floor,
and put ny head under the bench to try tu pretect mysolife However, I
think sone of the cthors wore & st_ como over ot
short tine befere fran the Jefferson sinc,
not tho old P.Meie menbor, but & new UMM. man fron ano
one of oyse after they got tired of working on ne, they
stcrted on & who was in the wash housce Ho hed signed up
for the Usa’. ubout two or three wooks befurca, und they kioked und bout
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