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John L Lewis — Part 11
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Re: JOH! L. LEWIS, ET al.
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BTERVIEN WITH because I was not capable, but nethine wove was etd
or done about this,
ontinue
the mine at the time_o ake in May, 193/, or ripht before chat
time, and I didn 't attend any meetings of PLA duriny vhav tame. I du
why there was one, or how it wes
joined them for about a week,
*Duriig the summer of 1937 I do not renembcr signing any
petitions either for Uti or Fitis
"I do not remember having been called to work at Mine !Bt be~
treen .Jay 1937 and Nov., 1939, ane I do not remember whether any effort
was made to open Mine IR'.
“IT don't remember anything about a UM’ organizing in 1937.
"T was at the Mine 9! picketing when the U. &. ‘arshall cane
out just before Tharksgiving of 1937 and told us we had to ieave, I just
walked off and thought no mre about it.
"TJ renember voting in a latiuonal Labor Relations Board Election
in Dec. 1937 in which Piia beat UL.. JI was not threatened in any way in
this election.
"{ returned to work in Nov. of 1939 as a Frogressive and changed
to UM, the following spring. Ko force cr viclence of any kind was used to
make me change to Ulfis and i chaste] coecnuse I saw most of the fellows were
changing to ULil,
‘During this time I kne of no organizers in the rine and after
I heard some of the Pi4{ men verc becten up I never said anything which
would indicate that they were. Since the Spring of 1940 I have becn
DLT and -no one has tried to mak? ne chai:ge. I voted in the NLRB election
in about 1941 when UMi won, “stm cure threatened me in any way,
“\jhen I rcturned to ssork in Nov. of 1939, I don't renemer
seeing anything wnusual like results of fires or cavc-ins.
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