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cm ee a ce et C 0 - RE: JOHN L. LEWIS, BT AL baw b7D INT pit comittos whon one of the other men had been shot. I did not want to got shot. {continucdy— “I was down in the mine tho day that the strike ws started. I sont up short cars thot dey because I wos almost finished with my room, and kaiew that there wes sone discussion about quitting until a new controct wos fixed up, I had finished cleaning up my room and was on tcp and in the wash houeo when the atrike wis called. I was out at the ming eahoft o fow days after the strike started. I think I signed some sort ef paper for the Progressives. 1 know that I never signed any paper for the United Mine Workers. ; “I never heard anything obou_ the formation of a UMW loca) for Mine B. I never heard anything about a contract with the UMN. "I wos nct at Mine B the day that they started to open tho mine in Beptomber 1937. I went out there on tho second cr third day after that. I atuyed there ot tho mine about two thirds cf the time after thet when the men were thore on the ecmpany property. The mon who were there on the prop- erty were nen whe hed werked there all the time before that. TI heard that they tried to cpen the mine a few days after the injunction, but I did not go tc work and do not know what happened. I voted at tho clection held at the armory in “ecember 1937. That was a fair election as far as I know, Ho one attanpted to influence my vote, or tel] mo what to dc_ 1 woted at thot slocti:n just exactly as I wanted to vote. "“Whon the miné reopenod I did not attemt to go back to work. I get o lettor to go back, but I woe dof ¢ alright and decided not to work any more. I wont out to tho nino, and 1 om, and asked them to sond my tecle up. I sold the tools right thore to ecmeone 6lec. "I wos olwnys satisfied with the Progressive Mine "orkers of Amor- fee. No one in thet crgonization ever threatened me or osked me to do any- thing that ZI did not want to dc. I would nvo liked te have contimad to work at Mine B if I could have without 21] that troulble. I had o hard tine gotting o job oftor that. ~ “I havo read the above statement cn this page and two other pages. || = — —_ ——-- = — —- — — =~ — | It is all true and accurate, “TITHESSED : «~ 554 « ee ‘ H