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CG are RE: JOHN L. LE.I8 lo J& 77 f: INTERVISST WITH in 1937, I do not remember if I wes at the meeting of the union the dny before the strike. I remember that I was . feontinue londing smell cars of coal that day, but I sonmot remember Why*it wee that I was londing them small, I was not told to load them amnll. Something happened that made me see thet I should load then small. It was something that the company did, but I do not recall what it was. After the strike was called, I do not renember exactly whet it was that did happen. I kmow that one day they tried to open the mine, I was out there. There were about 10 men who went down into the mine with OSCAR FALCEITI. After o short time they 212 came up. We had a union meeting the next dry or that night. I remember that we went back out to the mine ani strayed on the property to keep the United Mine Workers from coming in to go to work, I st-yed out there a lot of the time during the sit down. The men who were on the sit down were men who had been working at Mine B. «after the injunction I left the mine property. I did not hear of any more attempts to open the mine. *I voted in the election in December 1937. No one told me how to vote, cr tried to influence my vote in any way. It wmeo foir election as for as I know, ond I voted xnetly ~# I plensed. "hen the strike sterted I wos satisfied with the rrogressiven Mine “orkers of #merica, amt the operation of local #54. T did not want to join the UN’. I wne off of JOHN L. LETIS for what he had done to us miners in 1932. "During the strike I did not have any other fob. "I do not recoll exactly what happened to reopen the mine, but when it w.s reopened as on open mine. There were men who belonged to both unions. I knew thot they were trying to organize the United Mine dorkers as a union there. I hed heard of thet. I told everybody that seid anytning to me about it, that I would never join the United Mine Workers because of the things tir. JCHN L. LE:I8 had done to the coal miners in 1932. I talked about that ,uite a bit, and was not afreid to let anyone know how I felt about it. "chen I went book to the mine, I got my old room, but when it ran out, I wes given o very bond roan. It was full of slate, and it wns so herd to work that I do not believe that the company ever made any money out of it at all. I began getting "docks" for having dirt in my coal, IJ had had very few docks before the troulble with the unions. They ran up $50 of docks a- goinst me. They charged docks of $.40 for the first cor with dirt in it each coy, $1.40 for the second, end 33.00 for the third car with dirt in it erch ¥ day. Nost of these tines I found out thot the dirt in ny car would be sul- ns phur or dirt, ond there was no sulphur or that kind of dirt in my rom at . tlle The conpeny began giving me the bad end of the deals. They treated « $41 «