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_ eee rena le ce a pees ei t ‘ °c. o Ee has : JOHN L, LEWIS, ET AL ZL 7 aD INTERVIFT WITH "Between 1935 and Lay 12, 1957, WH did not set up a picket line and UMT did not distribute any literatures continue at Mine "b*.- mae ®I know nothing aout any allegai Ti! apies at Mine B. “I do no” tnow if there was any relationship between UT officials and the mansgonent of Mine “B* between 1935 and lay 12, 1957. ®I do not know if there was a wage scale controversy in the Spring of 1937. fl do not kror if there ros £2 YUIA mecting on tho, right of Mey 11, 1937. 7 earivl somexif I receiv i notiss of a meeting on that night or note “On the moratag of [ay 12, 1937 I was told by a member of the FiA pit carmittee to loai the coal cars short. I do not know why. Tabane a om tee + Later thet day Iwot xold by scveone the Line "BY was closed. I do not know why the mine closed and i did not ark any questions. Coal oars were loaded short on the morning of “ny 12, 1937 and I loaded coal cars short that dey, but I do not know why and I do not know if there woe a grovring sentiment to strike thet day. *I signed a Pi petition of lay 26, 1937. Thig,petition was brought to my home for my signature by a representative » iJ think the petition was to show that I was for Fé, but I do not rember any” detcils, Tho ropresentative of FLA did not threaten ms af I did not sign the petition. “J did not eign any other petition in the Sumor of 1957. | "I did not know of the formation of naw I7M local 7469 July 29, 1937. , "I think I attended som PIA meetings in the Sumer of 19357, but I do not know of any viclenoe or stotcnents by the management of “fine “B" during thet period of time. | *] saw in the newspaper in Sept. 1937 that Hine "B® was to have opanod. I went to t‘ine *B® to work, but no one went into tho mins, 1 do not know why they did not go to work. I acted as a picket fron tims to tine for about two months subsequent to Sept. 1937. No one threatened me if I did not act ns a picket. So far os I know only miners at Ifins “p" eotod ce pickets and no outsiders were brought in os pickets. oe Oar ee = 288 « ‘| .