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PERE LOOT IO TT INTERVIE. ITH ae "I spent quite 2 bit of my tine at the time (contimed) durin; this picketing and we were guard-_ ing the property as we werc afraid that - UM; might come in and damaye the mine “property. The strike there was very - orderly and it was just to protcet the property. No outsiders were brot in by Pl. at all as just the local PHA miners wore out therc. However the sheriff and luis men were out there too. ; Wie were doing this picket work just to protect the property - and our property and one forced us to picket the place t ali "J don’t know anything cbout 2 strike in Doc. 1937. In Decenber, 1937 I heard about NLRB goin, to hold an election at the arnory in Spring- field and altho I did not have to go anJ vote I nevertheless want te as I still felt that Plia wes the best and several miners came out S I voted for PIG I havc shown to agents + went down and voted of ny oan free will and no o yo dain and votc. As a result of this election I heard | thet PHA. won by 404 to 25. This election was by seerct ballot and it was verfectly 1e,al and nothing crooked about it and I know that the other PMa nen voted for . becauss they believed that wes the best union. «about tro months after the mine opened in Sept. 1939 I first received my resistcred letter fron vr. Elshoff offering me back my job. f "I also voted at the second NLRB election S then and I voted avein for Pll., The election was held alrisht but the reason UH: won was because I had heerd thru gossip that many UM. men werc zoing ardound to the homes of Fil. and was tellin. them to vote for UMY and they also were jiven liquor and othor things. I believe that the same 14 mcn vere the ones goin: around. In regard to this second NLRB clection tho PM. mon had to go dowi. to vote by ecrtain streets, - . - "IT have never joined the TM, "This 3 pag. statcvent has bean read to ne and uy wife by fgont and it igs true and correct 774 I have signed it ot uy own free will.f Special Agent, FSI, Milwaukee, Wis.3 | _ e : ~W9e