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- bo "On the morning of May 12, 1937 I was wae: I noticed what I thought was an unus number of cars loaded short. after we went out on strike for a period of several weeks or more, several petitions were circulated by PMA and J remember at least two of them and I signed both. I also heard UMW sent a petition but I never signed it. ‘ "Sometime in the summer of 1937 I remember hearing that I do not know how to spell his name, but he lives at ingfies. were shot by whose name I do not know how a were ehaead by the poli ee SE a _ = 5 months bu I heard it Was because he threw his gun away. 5a Lar after they were shot and Wy oid me they were shot because i 9 ot Sign up with UMi. yhen the tfine 'B! was opened, or they tried to open it, in September 1937, I did not know the mine was being re-opened and I didn ft get there until two days after they tried to re-open it. I heard they would only let UMW men down in the mine anc would not let PMA men work. We started a picket line and hada gsitdown for about 56 days. I was in the sitdown most of the time until the U. S, Harshali told us we would have to get out, just before Thanksgiving of 1937. + "During the summer of 1937 no one tried to get me to join UM¥ and the company did not try to influence me. The PMA officials did not use any kind of force, threat or promise to make me stay in the picket lines, JI wanted te be in the sitdown because I thought the PMA was right. I remember nothing wusual during the sitdown, but we guarded the mine and bldgs very well during this time because we were afraid UM) would try to blow things up and blame PMA. "The PMA and myself, did not feel good about having to get off the sitdown because we thought it was unfair that we, PMA, could do nothing and UMW could do anything, but it was a Federal order and we knew we had to obey it. "After that I went to work for several construction companies until the Mine 'B' reopened in 1939. !I was never notified to come to work at Mine *B’ until about Nov. of 1939, when on Nov. 2, 1939, I received a registered ceematingl Rieti ambien ee > ancin te etieeh te Wie an eeen dn mtadh ate dant enema |