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+ {continued a >) } RE: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL. o*) C_ The men were loading short weights because the management refused to fire the men 1 as asked. The men didn't want to go on open strike, but hoped to force th company's hand in that way. They weren't instructed to load short, and ] agreed among themselves to do it. “Then the men camp up from the mine there was a lot of dissatis- faction among them. I don't think the trouble was caused by the wage dis- pute, or any feeling against the P.M.A., because the men felt that the P.M.A. could do them as much good as the U.M.W. IJ think the controvorsy between the management and the P.M.A. over the retroactive clause in the contract was brought on by the management to start trouble, and give the management a chance to join up with the U.M.T. "(mn the dey of the strike, when I came up from the mine, I saw Plotch, Pasquale, and Pascuale's son, come up and go into Falcetti's office. It struck me as funny, because the miners didn't usually associ- ate with the management. It was especially peculiar, because I know they had been agitating for the U.N... I saw them in Faleetti'’s office, but I don't know what they were talking ebout. ‘.hen I went home from the mine that dcy, I knew that the P.E.1. men wouldn't go back to work untij a settlement was made. I don't remember if the P.M.A. officers told us to stay out or not. : "I don't remember signing any P.M.A. petition, or any other, in the summer of 1957. I heard at P.h.A. meetings that the U.M... was trying to takc over Mine B, and we'd have to fight to hold our jobs. I knew that a UM... local was organized in the summer of 1937, but I wasn't asked to join. “I didn't go out to the picket line in the fall of 1937. It seems to me that I went back to the mine the night after the strike started to picket one or two days, but not after that. In the fall of 1937, I paid my dues to P.NM.a., and wont out to the mine to pay them, That was the only time I was around there. The decision to picket the mine was made at a P.M.A. meeting, but as I was working, I didn't go. "In December of 1937, I voted in an election at the State Arsonal. T won gweiumtoet le weet Ane t+ ee enethhane kee T eat tho wntiec T wate A fan 2 WELL YWOLUILAT alys hb UOT, & PeeUIWeOL Gh 2 BvVeY VIS JIVUULOt s 4 FULOU LUT P.L.A. because I was satisfied with that union. I felt that asmall group of men were trying to shove something down the throats of the rest, and refused to have anything to do with it. -li- cee pe ee nr te nt me rem re re