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BMch lo oe Reng? z Re: JOE" L. LEVIS, ET AL IPTSRVIT ITH «= minere to get them to join the ut. SBR contacted me IREERr about a week after the Elks Club meeting. I did not go (cont inuéa ) to this meetings “I heard | ® rumor that Elshoff might try to operate Mine A throurh the Mine B tipple, but I did not believe it because it was not practical. This did not bother me, and I told the other miner 80+ *T heard the rumor before contacted me that Elshoff would open the mine on the condition the men joined the Tilt. I believed this +o be true as I knew ebout Mine B not opening until the miners working in that mine joined 1 «URE, Since Elshoff was nor thea operator of both mines, I thought tne seme would be true at Mine A. I joined the UM’ only to keep my job. I woule heve rether been a PUA member. 1 feel most of the miners vanted the FIA because they knew about the Mine B trouble, They did rot want to be out of work, 60 they joined the UM. 4m thet mine isinedr the "t heard from other miners about the mestinge when the local of FilA at Tine A was meeting and talking ebout changirg to the UN’. I did not go to any of the mestincs. i 2 nought the miners would join ths UIT. I decided not to go to the meetings. I only went to Us Hell and signed up with that union. +hn O Te wast “then Elshoff first sterted opercting mine A in 1941, the conditions in the mine wore not es good as ther hed been under Ryan and the FlA. Under Elshoff and the Til’, they refused to provide good air in the tino ard did awey with the meaeures taken by Ryan to improve this situation. They docked us excessively and did not tell us why. it thet time, men wera easy to get. Nox, the conditions are better beceuse men can get jobs elsewhere, and de not have to put up with thet sort of thing. “T heve read and fully understand the two and onc half pages of thie etetement and it is true and oorract. Witnessod: mec Lf en BI. Special Agent eb. I.” ~ 504 - Se Ree CS A ae ane a Sie oo |