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C axe Re: JOHN L, LEWIS, ET AL. be b 1D IN Top With All during the picketing no one was brought in to picket and all were tine "BY workers. Sometime in ontinue the early part of December 1937 I went to work at Panther Creek Jld Vest Mine and stayed there until Mine "3" opened up again in 1939 except that I was transferred to New North lMine. "T voted in the. N.L.R.B. election in 1937 while I was employed at Jld West ifine and I think it was a fair election, "In Nov. 1939, I received a letter stating Mine "B" would re- open and due to a court ruling menbers of each union (PEA © Uttf) begar. working et :-Hre "2", I was working at New liorth fine at this tine and becazse I liisd the men on top at Line "B" better than New North, I went back to Iine “B", "T voted ir the N.L.R.3. election in Feb, 1941. It was a fair election as far a5 T know, At this time I was not a member of any union as I had quit paying cues to Pla 5 or 6 months before, as soon as the election returns shoved “ils hid won I joined UM? to hold my job. “I am now vworki g at Mine "8" and am a member of U.M.%. I think there is very little difference in Pi or ULL’ and would join cither de- pending on which one had bargaining rights & contract with the coal company. "T have had this three page statement read to me by Wi it is true and correct. S| Zs " itnessed;: /s/ Special agent, F.B.I. /s/ Sp. agt. FBI." - 266 - nr cnc cine alien heitkemnthi aaidlamiiet-Sietiadsadedcicimdiantiasmnitie iat tit oii inline Manali seit siniliies: ali asisneiaisinn inal ar eee