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~ ™h, ¥ RE: JOEN L, LEIS, ZT AL ton b fa Lb) INTLRVIS.. ee ®I voted in an election held in the fall of (contimed) - ° 1937 zbout the union for Mine B. As far 2s I know thst was a fair election. No one tried to influence my vote, or tell me what to do, I voted at that el- weticn exactly as I wanted to. vote. "TI did not hear of am other attciapts to open the mine, "In 1339 when the mine was actually opened, I did 20 back to work at m’ old job, of workin, on euerzeney mattcrs, ete., for the company. J traveled over most of the «ine, There had been some bi- falls in the mine, Box 2 and 2 and box 9 had Plis, and toey have not been cle-ned up yet. Box 5 had a fell, and it was finally clecned up and opened. I do not know how bis a fell it was becduse T did not help clean it up, but I did put in track afterwards, "T kne.. after the irvine rcopened, He was supposed to be a first aid man, or air Check man or sotiething like that. I never saw him do amy work. My prtner and J are supposed to keep track of air and first aid in th: day timc, aed We kept on doin. things just as we had before. There never had vecu special man for that before the strike started, and after the etrike and eft, no onc else was hired to do that kind ov vrerk, J kn He wes Supposed to be a tiabes Sid 2 little tinblring, : i : Was 0 sround amd talk to th. men, 3 ; worke in, there, They spent a lot of time pa lick o the man and I thought that they must be orgenizing. The only favoritism that I saw of the company, in hel,in, one union over the other was that the commen? seemed to- favor these men, and let thei spend timc in the iiine to hel,. or_anize for the United Mine “orkers. I did not ssc anyone beaten, or throatencd in any way although I heard that was bsoin, dons. "Cudie Bawiordner, and Jimy Hale asked c if I was -oing to foin 'o United Hine “orkers. TI told then that I would, but I ut if off for quite c while bocause the i.cn wo T rode with were pretty much sect alinst end I did not want to be the onl one in the car. Finally, asked me wher I was goin, to-sicn up, and I-si-ned up with oretty lete in the orgenizing out there, but vas shortly nofore the s-cond cleetion, YT joincd uo with the UM’ bccause I could sce tiat the ine was going to be UN! and I vould ha-. to join up to keep uy job. It looked to 2% like the men were 212 switcnins, so I did too. I would just as soon have stc:ed in the Tro. rcssive Mine “orkers, but it did not make too wuch difference to uc whieh Union I bolonged to. If things had