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C an ©) RE: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL 7 . SIc LUD INTERVIEW WITH cause of the picketing out there for rever-] aontae. 2 went home twice a week but I was there cn the striice -os* contimed of the time, The mon out thoro wory from Local 34 a3 there were no outsiders brot in to help us. We just sat sround, played bell and cards and just watched the property at Mine B. PMA officiols did not force us to go out there ond we wero there to protect cur jobs there. While we were there no ono bothored us ond UMT did not caure any trcoublo and the sit down strike wos vory quiet and peaceful. I ws thor: when the U. S. Marshall told us to lenve., He read something and said we had botter leave ond wo all left and thore wes no trouble at all regarding ienv ing. oF *I don't recell if I went out tc Ming B inter again whon it wor Bupprsed to reopon. Oh, yos, I remember thot in some chilly weather I rns ot PMA office ond lewyer’Dahl and Urd Burks said something about then pein; out to take the mules out of Mino B.’ I went out thoro but nobody went coun thon and I went hone agein. I just don't kmow what the roascn wns why uo cne went to work. "I voted for PMA at the NLRB electicn at the Armory in Springfietc, Ill. 404 went for PMA and 25 for ULil, That wis an honest olection. I wm. not forced to vote by anyone and I voted the wry I want to. It wos by cesrct ballot and ne strong orm methods were used. "I don't kmow why PUA and Elehoff could not sign ao contract .™or PA won the oloction. I gct o registered letter from Elshoff telling me 4 had te be back in 10 days in order to get my job back. 1 figured I wow. zet paid the rezular scale wage and no cne told me what wares xe were to got. Nothing wns said ebout a contrnct thet I know of. After the mine crenad Bohannon told us in the Redman's hell on Monroe St., in Springfield, Til., "that if we joined to UM! that they could get a contract in 2 weeks. Hany of the old PA came back when the mine opened. tellec te my buddy in the mine and oske4f him if I was going to ae: ny bvedy. a. ruse aumaparmnmarenccenh fold hin that I had said the OL o wo e Courts decided the mtter. I had heard chet ay (phonetic) hed boon in the hospital had beer beaten up and Iom sure thet PA did not dc it. I also sow (PHONETIC) on the stroot and he seid he had a fight at the mi 6 one y. He wos bleeding and had just come from the mine ond he me on his woy to PMA office to report it. Wo ono ever threatened me to join over. I was working canpany work ao no one bothered me then. Thore wos a dead line of going cver to UMW by Jan- vary 16, 1941 ond I finally signed up ond then next month NLRB had another eloction at the Amory. J had to sign up otherwise I would not hive o job. Some one hod marked on o pit car with chelk that oftor January 16, 1941 thore would be nc more PMA and I belicved that and I knew that things might happen sc I signed up with UM. - 397 =