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TET gy ow ee! The Coy a Kf Tee ee : vor * oY RE: JOHN L. LEIS, &T aL INTSRV IES AIT. local vory nicely and there never wag ‘any a {contimed) trouble over this mattcr. I favorod the Fa Local as they were de’ng @ lot of zood for ali of us. - a : *Betreen 1932 and 1537 there were about 14 men workin, in the Fine 8B who rore Fin mi miner's but everyone sceued to kno. that they were Té= ceivin. money frou UL becans. these men were teiking to tha Pit miners abor. ,0iLn.. over to Uo and these 14 men ald seensd to have a lot of “extra money ana some also -ot ne’ cars and other things. These 14 mon never talked to ms avout svin in, back to UM", I heard thet UMS had sent out -itcrature and Ppenmphlets but I never saw or rsccived any. . "In regard to the 7Ma meubers being convicted for the boabin.s it was the o>zinion of 41) us «iners that the United Mine sorkers were bchind th and that the Piel mar, eonwaetad ea mnatkhtnst te An with ¢4+ «at att Cas A Wwidte We a ae ee hed fil Md dood S ee ee ee | "T recall that andr<o™ Schrelevious, Dowinic Pasquale, Pete Cartor, Frank austin, Tony Flotch, Joho (Cotton). ananias, John “Sirtout, Geo. and ~~ Emory Jcceway, Charles Bohennon end Jans Hels, vers at Mine B and these are sone of the 14 men T referred to above,” | fT never heard or kno. of any partics or social affairs botvcen B tine officials and UB, , "The cause of the strike in 1937 was not caus.d over wazes but was th: result of Mine B not firin, Foto Carter and Frank wustin aftor ther hed bDecn sxzelled from PHA ana ther. wi Nt heve boen a fou more who vere expolled too, I did not attend the smcctin, when the mon vere exsellud and I con't rscall if it wes a r cular or special mecting. In rcogard to when the strike sterted et Mine B it vas not knomn to us miners thet there would be @ siriks, Howcver, on tact worninyg We all went to work but we did sot like the idsa that the manascuent of I"ine B wovld not fire thesc men who were expelled, But wo workod and t-at eovoning went home and did not know that a strike vould be. I learned about the men being expelled thru gossip at the mine and I learned avout it the next mornin: - Woe winers did not feel that we covld gct mo-€or better bonefite b, chrn.>nz over to UL fros Fill. There never were any coal cers bein, loadc, short until the da; of ths strike Then we miners sa.: Cart-r and dustin go down into the wine artur the »analcnent should hav fircd thom, This did not Set vell wits the miners and ther dia not teak. an interest in their vork bee cause ther felt that the iine B maneseoent was favoring UM"7. F.ICSTTI never seid anything to m es to hov he felt about the lL. and Un.. If the annage- - went “ould have fired these -xpellod nen there would not havc been any trouble at Fine B at all.