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star 7a tes ; * ea 5B to * | Me: JOHN L. LEWIS, ETAL ht ast ayn ok ha ae : ee pte. OSE ao : | bYD ~ ee WITH remenber if I knew about the meting. i; strike,I walked ott with the rest of the miners because 9 -2* . I wanted to be with the majority of thr miners. I don '§. af remenber if I signed a P.W.A. petition in 1937, aor do’ ’- . I remember sipninp any petitions for any union. No one asked me to join the U.LLT. that year, and no one threatened m in an attempt to mke me ; join the U.M.W. I did not picket Mine B in the fall of 1937 because I. -. cid not want to pet into any trouble. I wanted to stay away until every- ; thine was settled, a "IT recall that someone tr2ld me about an election in Decenber | 1937, but I don't remenber if I voted in the election. I don't know how T would have voted in the electii ion, but Tt probably mould da have voted with the majority in favor of the P.ELA. *T don't rencaber cetting any notices of the reopening of Mine B except the last notice. I did not go up to the mine because of the fight- ing that was going on between the members of P.M.A. and U. MWe "I went back to workin Mine B, as I recall, in 1939, After . I retumed to work I saw a man in thé wine who was known as an “air checker.® I don't remember his name. This man was pernitted to fo all through the mine in his job. As he did so, he talked to the miners trying to get them. to join the U.E.W. He cid not ask me to join the U.L.W., and I can't remenber the names of the miners who told me what he was doing. Prior to the strike in 1937 there wis n> "air chécker® in Nine B. I think that this mar. was only tryinr to pet members for U.N.%. I think his name was . a "I rejoined the U.u.%, some time in the fall of 1940, as I recall. “hen ny wife died in § FE ls and asked then if they wulA help: me pay for They told me that they did not have any money to heip ne that they could not do this because I had not paid any P.M.A. dues. The Mine B company had not dheckéd off mine dues for either union, as TI recall. gg ' "Some tine in 1940 Dominic.Pasquale came to ny house an¢ asked Tjoined the U.led. and they paid ne’ §t0er00 sith a chess ed the check to my account in the First National Bank of Springfield which is located | on 5th St., in Sprin¢field,, Ti. ‘ trrom the timo the mine opened in 1939 until the election in 1941 I saw no trouble at the mines I heard that some men were beaten up, - pee ae