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RE: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET AL ba~ 67D INTERVIE¥ WITH | = U.L.. I never saw them give out any literature <n 6;07:) Onl or anything. About 2 or 3 weeks before the mine continue closed there were about 25 men who would start talking about which union the men should join. I never heard envthing about any parties given the U.M.W. officials by ELLSHOFF. "At the time the contract ran out in 1937, I did not hear anything about the kind of agreement they reached for us to work under, A member of our local board told us at one meeting that when an agreement was reached we would get back pay for any increase we got, Nobody seemed to be mad about this agreement. We heard nothing fran the manage- ment as to the kind of agreement made. "I attended the meeting at which the 5 so-called spies were expelled from P.M.A.» I can't tell now what happened it is too long ago. On the dey of the strike the men were provoked because the Co. let the 5 expelled men go back to work. There was no talk of striking because of pey. "I dont remember anything about cars being loaded short the day of the strike. "I dont remember signing any petiticn for either U.M.W. or P.W.A. if I hod signed any it would have been P.M.A. “I heard of the forming of the U.M.W. local in Jul, 1937, I was not contacted to join this as I had made it known that I wouldn't join. I dont renember anything urusual happéfing during the summer of 1937. "I returned to the mine when they tried to open it in 1937. The Progressives didn't go to work that dey because Falsceatti didn't want the Progressives. As I remember the U.M.W. men went out for 2 or 3 deys. The Progressives then said if we dont go to work nobody is going and the U.l.W. men stayed in the office. I was out at the mine mest of the time we were there to protect our jobs. No one forced me to go and it was s1]1 perceful. Some seid thet some carloeds of U.M.W. men ceme out but I didn’t see them. I was not there the night the marshel] came ond told us to leave. I never went back to the mine except once to the wash-house to get my pet-clothes. Ie. i “I voted for P.M.A. at the first N.R.L.B. election I did : this of my own free will. It looked to me to be a good election. - 395 -