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John L Lewis — Part 9
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IVTERVIE? VITH *I do not remember a UMi picket line at Mine agi between, h
Sept. 1932 and May 12, 1937 nor did I wee any literature
(continued) being distributed at the mine.
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"Ko one attempted to convert he from FMA to met orion to wy yar
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1937, gt
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"I never saw any officials of UM associating with the Managenont oo.
of Mine "B*, , - . vos
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"I never heard about a wage scale controversy in the Spring ‘of 1987,
"I did not attend a meeting of PMA on the night of May 11, 1987,
I do not romber if I recaived notice of such a nesting or not.
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"On about May 12, 1937 I went to work as usuel, someone told me the.
mine was on strike so I retutned home, I do not know why the striko was
called as. no one told me,
"I do not recall signing any petitions in tho summer of 1937.
"I know nothing of the formation of a UMT local in the Summer of
1937.
“Sometime in Sept. 1937 FMA advised me that Mine "BY was to opens’
On going to the mine I was toid by somoono I could not work, but no reason
was given. I acted as a voluntary FMA picket from time to time from Sept.-
1937 to sometime in Pov, 1937 whon on injunction was obtained to prevent the
picketing, All the pkcets were miners at Mine "B",
"I do not know the attitude of the miners of Mine "B® concerning the
infunction, ‘
*Sonetins in Decembor 1587 I voted in the NLRB election for Pua. ‘
So far as I know the election was fair and no vioicnce took place during the
election. :
"Tl think I obtained a position at Mine "A" in the last part of
1937 an¢ dropped all interest in ine"™B". YF cannot furnish any Information
subsoguent to tho last part of 1937 concerning !Ifine "BY. During the time
I wos employed at Mine "A*® it was not owned by Elshoff. oY
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"T am at the present a member of FMA and consider it a good union, .
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