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| { eda ne a LA ee RL ern te maumiionseaaindinn teeth nstiitlinadiibesati mei ontetiten a taiteitaleetn ete nema OC - O Re: JOHN L. LEIS, ET AL bc b1D citi *T kmow all of the following persons: (cont JOE ALABANESE JOM! SIRTour Re ae SRS ey i Ae ee =~ ee ANDREW SCHRELEVIOUS CHARLES BOBANNON DOMINIC FASQUALE “GLORGE JACATAY FETE CARTER ~~~ EMORY JACAVAY FRINK aUSTIN _ JAMES HALE TONY PLOTCE "two or three weeks after I returned to Mine "B* to work when it re-opened in November, 1939 I signed a UMW card and became a member of UAT. I didn't want to join UMY, but everyone else did so I did too. I was nover threatened or made to join. I always steyod in tho background and let the othcr men decide what to do. "I did not know about the activities of the eleven men whose names are mentioned above in thia statement, except that after the mine opened in 1939 these men went around to tha miners to ect thom to join UM, I heard that some mincrs worc beaten up but I don't romember who or why they were beaten. "I remombor then the five men wero thrown out of PMA in May 1937, but I do not know why. I did not go to tho PMA meeting on May 11, 1957 because I do not understand English well. For this reason I can not talk very well about union affairs or what the trouble was in 1937 when the strike took place at Minc "B", "I helped picket Mine #B" with the other PMA mombers for scvoral wecks aftcr the mine closed, *I do not remembor if I ever signed any PMA or UM. petitions. "I do not care which union I work under. I do not know anything about PMA and I do not kmow anything about UM. "1 have had this statement consisting of one and one half pagos read to me by because I do not read English. This statement is tru ¢ best of my knowledge and I gave the information set forth above of my own free will. ; (sient) ON (35:20 pecial .gent, F.B.I." - 415 - pe