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John L Lewis — Part 9
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"I never heard about amy parties being piven between os
ELSEOFF and the Ui wen. In reearet to the contract
running out in spr
tne Wage que
they were going to close down.
"J had my daughter-in-law drive me to Hine § to get uy check
and et that tine I had heard that the nen Were not working but I did not
know it was a strike. .t Mine 8B I asked OSC,R F..LCETTI what the trouble
wns all about and he said he couldn't sey and T don't know just what he
meant by that. ‘hen I went out there there was only the office force
there so J didn't ask anyone else about it.
"J don't know anything about any men being expelled from Plz
_ for doing spy work for If’, and I never heard anything about a mceting
being held when those nen were expelled as J was sick before the wine .
closed, a
any petitions in sumer of 1937
but around that tinc & - GLEN STUFFLOHE. J (is now dead)
and another man cane to ty hone MM esked ne to sign some paper in +
_gonneetion with the wage scale they were working and I signed it and
they said they were going to all the ainers, JI didntt care who made
the wage scale as if there was not any scale we could not work. I
was not threatened at all and signed that of my own free will.
"T cantt reca
of <teni
‘During the swiamer of $M: was living’ 5 Sage
Springfield, Illinois, and around thet tine CH.RL'S BOLTON COTTON,
AW4ILLAS and several others came to oy hone in a car and nentioned they
had forned a new UM. local and asked me how I felt about it and I told
then I still felt thet I was a UMS oun and that I would sign up and I
told then they should go ahead and try to get more nen but that they
should not use any force or rough stuff, . short time later I signed up
over £t the UM’ hall, Oo
“Tt seems to me that whenever the PH, had meetings that there
vag, touble of some kind. I think that asround Easter, in 1937 or 1938,
Ep. x02e( phonetic) was killed in connection with sone necting, I just
heard about this,
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nT did not know anything about the reopening of the nine in
the fall of 1937 and I was not out there when it started to open but while
. the sit down strike was fpoing on I went over there once in the evening
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