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Re: JOHN L. IETIs, ETaL / -, > /QL LIP TD WITH "I don't recall how I received a notice for the election din Deconber 1937. I went to the election voluntarily, end feontinued } wotod for P.t..a. because I th. macht snat wags the better es ge eer urion an? becruse 5 tid not like “om L. Lawis. I think that this election wos fair. "I starte! back tv work in Mine E about ti. months after 14 opened. I could no 20 back sooner because tht section of the mine in which I had becn yorkinc h:d been damaced during the time the mine rs shut dow. After the mince »pened up there w.s considerable trouble in the mince. There many fizhts and many men were beate:. up, I did not sce ary f +h. Tt + Len ver mo of these fichts and I don't know the names of any of the men involved. No threats or violence were used acninst me. "after L started back to work, a man knowm ot, another know a came to me in the mine about mice a 3» and asked me why I did not join the U.M.W. union. They said that everyone else in the mine was poine to sim up, an! that I wonld lose my job if I did not sign up. During this tine I don't remember that the manare~ ment ever expressed an opinien as to which union they preferred. "In the election of February 1941 I voted for the U.Mea. at this tine Iwas nwt a member of the U.M.V, I voted for the U.M.T. because the men that I have mentioned before in this statement had told me at one tine or another that if the P.M.A. won the election, the mins would shut dom again because the manacement had said they would shut down in that event. I did not want to lose my job so I voted for the U.M.W. SPretor to tho strike in 1937 I don't romember any employ who had the job of “air checker" but after the mine opencd up in 1939 the man known as ae: such a job. He had no particular duties, an? I think that he was merely organizing for U.M.W. There were a couple of other jobs like this but I don't roeall who hele them. ager: 4 ‘ : ' n ; 4 ee 3 7 ihe iF . ape? 4 Tagbiiy BY a a . ad ale eh ft a 4 *T oannot estimate the cost that was involved in reopenine the mine. I don't remember big fires after the mina opened up. "Many of the miners are of the opinion that John L. Lewis mas | givinr momey to Carl Elshoff during the time the mine was shut dow. I, like the rest of the miners, think that lewis cave Elshoff money to live on and to keep the mine in condition so that it coulc be reoponed some day when the U.H.. had tho majority of the miners. TI don't know where these iceas came fron, but most of the miners had thon. "This statoment consist three other typewritten pices has been read to me by and I state that it ~ 361 «- ne ce re A Rg Ee PT ES PS RL RE eT SE SN I —