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C : CO. "96446 RE: JON L. LEIS, BT Ab aa - 274 wouldn't let any of the sons of the miners cone to the mine to work, but during this period they would let then come in providing the; Would join up with the UM, it is my belicf that this was tho method used to enlarge the UM; nanbership at mine "B® so they could cal} for a NLAB election and be sure of winnin:. IT @6Att know who made this rule, wWhicthr i: ves a Union Rulo or < Company ong, nor do I know who revoked it. I believe nowever it was donc by whet I call Elshoffts zang, in the UM. During this period all of the new men hired vere members of the Wl, they would take on no Low PM. men at all. The UL? men did me no harm personally. I heard of dirt; tricks being layed to other nen and know of one san whose na. c I do not recall at »rosont bing beat up and spendin some tine in the INTL. Wik: VITE (continued) "Some timc betveen ths opcning of the nine and the last elcction, Tony Plote _ and "Cotton" .manias, visited née at uy hone and tricd to get me foster up with the UTS” IT tom then I would do whatever the majority antec, They said to "Hcll® with the uajorit, we want you now. J finally rej ined the UM. because xy son wanted | a job in the mine and I had to be a meonber of the Tit’ in order for hin to -ct it. o ned the UMT, I belie uid finally have had tr Re A Ur go fu 2 “ ¥ inka ow get out of of the rine, I basc this on what I heard and sav done to othe miners who Vouldn't join. I dont fcel that I joined the UL) of my on free will but beccuse of the pressure brou,ht on me as I heve indicated here, if it hadn't been for this I would have st .ed with Pi. as I was satisfied with thet Union. JI know of nothin, elsc done by the manaccaent that wouid indicatsc preference for the UM... So far as the Fly nen were concerned they just had to take it and keep their mouths shut. I do not recell sizning any membership cards in cither Pll. or UMs during the sumcor of 1940, Tro a ri G "J do not think thet all of the men who voted in the last NLRB election, J fuel that a lot of the UH. nen who voted were hired at the mine Sinply so they conid vote and sive UMI a majority. as far as the election itself was concerned I fevi that it twas run honestly. I voted for the UMT in this clection mysclf because I had joined the WMT and fclt that it was best thet I should vote this way in order to avoid any trouble. | "T belicve that Mine B is in bad condition and that if it had boon| closed for another your they would have been unable to reopen it at all. t appuars to me that the Fir. -clay umier the coal has heaved up and would have blocxed the nin: cntirel, if it had renained closed much lonzer. I have no present recolleetion of the fire in the nine in 1939 at all. "F do not have any pcrsonal knotled .e concerning the time when Giascow was kicked out of the UI! necting, { do know that he wasntt elected to 4 union office the last tine he ran.