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ce tt at er a a ras Sans recreate capone CC Q Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET aL - ~ b?e bap INTERVIS. WITH mectings, we were not fined. Iwas satisfied with the ee P.M.A. leaders who I thought were always trying to help We the nenhers. T da don't recall anvthine being aaid in the Te Ves se = oe SS Siseeey Se erg Polaa. meatinsa about the bonbings that were havpening betreen 1932 and 1937. I only knew that I read in the newspapers, “If the P.il.a. ever asked for extra assessments, the leaders always explained vhat the assessments were for, There weren't many assessmnts. "Fron 1932 to 1937 there vere no attempts by the U.L.™., to my knowledge, to picket idne DB. I never saw any propaganda, "I don't know anything about any social contacts betreen the menbers of the U.n.~. and the manacenont of the mine. "after the temporary agrcement was sipned by the P.t.4. officials vith the mine management, I don't recall that the P.0L.. officials rave any report on this agreement. I, as well as most of the miners, felt that the P.iL... could get as good a wage scale as the U.N... could get. All of us had faith in the F.i.i. leaders. I don't recall any trouble at iline B on pay days in .pril 1937. "IT dontt recall seeing any notice of the F.ii.a. meeting just before the strike in 1937, but I recall that I heard that there was going to be a meeting. I don't know what the mecting wes for, and I don't recall that I went to the mesting. "On the ‘morning of the strike in May, 1937, I don't recall any talk regarcing the wage scale. aAs I recall the P.M... men refused to go into the mine if the U.i'... went into the mine. JI remember that I saw Dominic Pasquale, Andy Schrelevious, and a third man arguing with the P.iiuui. officials on the morninc of the strike. I don't know what they were arguing about. There vas sone talk at the mine on the day of the strike about loading the cars with short weichts to make the mine manago- ment sim a contract with F.i14. ‘I did not load ny cars short, and I don't know if any miners did loac their cars Short. "I recall that I signed the P.liu. petition vhi ch Sa (>) brought to my hovse. He told me that the P.?.i4. officials wanted to f out if the P.Iias had a majority of the miners in line B on their side. I signed this petition voluntarily because I wanted to, _ SI recall that in the summer of 1937 Tony Plotch, Cotton snanias, Teg and a third man, who is now secretary of U.1.7. local; cane to my house with a Uw... petition which they asked me to sign. They told me that if I did not sign the petition, thero would be no work at hine,B, and that the ~ 442 =