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- JORN L, LEVIS, ET AL Be S20 be , INTER VI=% . who told me to come out the next day if I vented to ” sear a - go back to work. I returned to work the next day" and - - itn t ogee ~ I knew nothing about pont inued) worked up until @ the wege scale at mo re &seumed tt would be the regular Ill, wage scale. At firet nobody said anything to ma e«lout joining the UelkuT. I didn't ee to either Union at this time. Both unions sent men to o i ses me esbout jJoinings £ ellor nemed feme &¢n a) RA et ‘ef SS ww pay any d a u oer hoepea + rr house t eek ie to stey with F.l.Ae he didn't beat or thretfen mek all, This was just before the 2nd NeLeneBe election, he wanted me to stay with the Frogressives but I told him, “It didn't seem no use." Burgarner & Fe:5f. man who changed over to orgenizing for U.M.¥. came to see ma about chenging over to U.1..... and I told him I might juet ae well. He didn't beat or threaten mae I went over to U.kh.". because it seomed ag though they hed the majority over there anyway. After the strike when I returned to work I sew a lot of new Uel.%. men there. A few of them ere #till there but moet are 411 gone now. Ww Poe Li mie ed i at fel "So far as I know it alweys seemed it didn't moke any differance to the mansgement rhich union was in the mim. "I dont recall eigning any cards for either U1. or Felis As har from the time Iwent beck to work up until I joincd the U.K. I joined the U.:.7. sometime prior to tho lost NeLR.B. election I dont know Just how long thie wos. os *I voted in the last K.LeR.B, eleotion and voted for U.H.t. pl I voted for U.i.i.. because I felt thet the progressives wasn't getting no where. I voted of my own freo will and the way I wented nobody. threatened me if I did or did not vote either way. Ths election was by secrett ballet. I believe it wae a good honest election, I think moet of the mer voted for the Usi.”. because they felt the same way I did. The only ones thet rere vee up were Woat after the election those wero progressives that felt they oould do like the U.M.M. men did ‘and stey thore without joining the ™!.". They geve them e ele to join the U.I.". and if the didn't they ron them off. | ote fe one of the nen who got beat he is still there_ho joined citer they beat him upe TI dont know who beat these men up. I wae a Cos mon and no body botherec me. . "§I dont know what kind of rh:pe the mine wos in when it was orened but I dont think it took any longer to put it in shepe than it alwcys did before. I dont rember _hosring anything abopZ e big fire out thera while the mine was closed. TI heve heard of Je cP elcecor but I yvaen't ct the vcuting vhere they kicked him out for’ say ing something oveut moneye : . a \ Ty oat heh