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wee ee vm tin ete a a a ee ee rer ae I €¢ «i @ t ae 4 Res JORN L. LEVIS, ET AL oa “~ éairchcck man they ever had. Before thit the man cid that at night. After left the mine, sbout the time of the secon ection, they did not have any oir check man, Ee was the only @ir check man we ever hac at Mine B, JI do not imow if there wero any other mon there. oo "No one ever threatened me, beat mc, stoic my tools, put dirt on my cars, or took the tacs off of my cars, but I heard that that was being cone. J know some of the men cot beaton, : oe anc some other fellows there asked me to jcin the United tlino horkers. them thet I woule not, and thot I would wait until the very last chance before I would change to tho United Mine Jorkera. TI did not juin the United Mine workers until after the seconc slection, and they told us then that we had until the 16th to join sr we would have to ray £25 to get ints the United Mine Workers. I do not remember who it was whe tela me that. IJ weited until the last day and then joined the United Nine orkers. I joined the Ul becausc I haa to in order to work in the mine. I cid not want to join. IJ voted in the second election, exactly as I wanted to. Fo one threatencd me cr told me how to vote. Both of the elections were fair ang honest elections as far as I kmow, "J did not want to join the United Mine Vorkera. I would go back to the Progrcssives now if I] could, because working oonditions were better then than they are now under the UNY. I had no choice but to join the UMy, or lose my home, so I joinec the ors an? ama member now. I go to the meetings about once a month. "The akowe statencnt on this pege anc three othcr pages heave been reac to me by 7 ; ee: ce | It is all true and accurate.