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CG © _J044] Re: JONN L. LEVIS, ETAL. / ~ 2) "I went back out to mine a few days after the Strike started to sign some papers. I do not remember what it was about. The Progressive Committee man called me in for it, We want to Falcetti's office to get something and got the papers there in the office, "T knew that there was a local formed for the Tia¥ the summer of 1937. I heard somethi _g about a contract with that local, but no one ever asked me to join that local, I did not go out to the mine the day that the picket line was formed. I went out a few days later and stayed quit a bit of the time. The men on the picket were all men who had worked at Mine B, There were no strangers staying out there all of the time, “~*~ "after the injunction stopped the picket, they tried to open the mine, but I did not go to work, They did not want any of us to come, and only were going to let the men who had been causing trouble at the mine come to work. I have never heard any of thse men say any= thing pcrsonally. "I voted i the electin which was held in December 1937, It was a fair election, No one tried to influcnce my vote, tell me how to vote, or anything élse. JI voted exactly as a I pleased, After the election the mine did not reopen for several months. Most of that time I could not get any work, but I did work for a while at a couple of the other mines, ‘hen Mine B was rcopencd, I went back out to work, "when I went back which was a few days after they reopned, I did not see any evidence of any big fire out there. There had been a few falls and cave ins but, there was no serious ones, Some of them I do not think have been opened yet. They weren't when I left mine B, in about January 1941. tAfter the mine reopened I was asked many times to join the United Mine Yorkers, The men who asked me to join, and argued with me were not the old men who had worked at the mine before, Most of them were new men, who J had not know before, They were in the mine, but “id not do much work, me ‘as a fellow named Sie... Sie eam I never saw him do much works He spent all of his time ryitg’ to Fesnize, antother was” "2 ~" He did not do any work ei‘: und trying to organics i maeneeen i | ~ + tan me on = 1. Supposed to be doing ‘in the mine. He did not do any work eee em cee me eR et A PRN ACER apr ST RE ANE ee YH an