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O “oH 006477 Re: JORN L. LEIS, ET AL . Ame. £59 Ly > mon about the wages then. I attended the mesting of the union held the night before the strike. It was a spocial meeting. I do not recell exactly how many men wore at that meeting. T do not aia TEAS Jee Te eee SU we, & a a remember exactly what it was that they decidcod that night. There was some talk ebout having some men fircd from the company, and some talk about short ears. I know I went to work the next dey, and did not know that there was gcing to te & strike. There were short cars coming up that day, btecauec the mon would not lesve a car in the room long enough to let it got filled up. I did not come up until about quitting tine, and then learned that a strike hoc teen called. I was told whet the strike was for, but I do not romember exactly what they told mc. I went home that night, and ceme back to the mine for a couple cf days aftcr that but cid not work. I do not remember whether J signed any papcrs for cither union at that time or not, "I could not sct any other job, and stayed at home, I remember when they hac sone trov.tte ct the minc in Scptember. I do not recall exactly what hacpened sr vhat it was supposed to be about, but I know I vent out to the minc. I did not expect to work that day, and there was semethinz saic about gsing dom if those 12 men who hac been wanting the Uniteé Mince workers went to work. These men hac never talked to me. I do not know what they said. Someone else told me that they wanted the United Mine Workers. I did not want to, and wantec to stay in the Progressive i’ine Vorkers,. "After that day we had a picket line and stayed out there by the mine until the marhsh2ll came sut with an injunction amd told us to lcave the property. YT stayed out there part of the time. A little after the injunction there was an cleetion. I voted in tmt election, and voted exactly as T wanted to, No one told me how to vote, or threatnenc me in any way. Bo one tole me how to vate, J votec exactly as I wanted to vote, "Until the time that tho mine rcopened I did not have any work. I eid not kmow of any time that they started to open the mine. If they had tried to open the mina I would have heard of it, and would heve gone back to work, but I never heard of it at all, "Shen I went back to work, which was the first cay that the mine wes opened, I dic not ses any cvidence of any big fire. Thero had been some cave ins. Some of them were pretty bad, and they have not opened thom up even yet. There wore some that took two or threo weeks to clean up. "hen I went back to work at Mino io B, I still belonged to the Frozressive ‘ine Uorkers. There werc Bone Th mon working in the mine who did not do anything but go_ aroune and talk to the men about joining the United Mince .arkers. vag one of thcse men. Ho never talked to me. Fe cid nat seem ta .. any work. He just talked to the men. They called him an fir check man, In all the vears tmt I was at the mine, ha was tho first - 217 =