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aaa i? om Re: JOHN L, LEWIS, ET AL. be 7? + . =-o SJ was not acquainted with the Wage scale controversy, except that I have about seventeen dollars owing me by Hine 'B!' dating back to 1937, "I did not attend the PMA meeting of May 11, 1937 and + do not remember what the discussion was at the meeting except that it corcerned sore miners who Were thrown out of the PIMA. "iT remember that on May 12, 1937 coal cars were being loaded short. Sometimes that day I pulled whole trips with the cars shorted. I did not know why the cars were snorted. "Jt was seldom curing this period because of my job that I got a chance to talk to the miners duriig working hours. "T helped picket Ifine '3' after the strike started, for three or four weeks. tT do not remember the PMA petation of May 26, 1937 or if I Signed a petition at that time 1 do not remember signing it, or any other petition, "I remember that + went to Mine 'Bt with the intention of going to work each of the three times it tried to open. "J heard it was going to try to re-open on each of the three occassions b talking to other miners near my home. I was too faraway to hear the mine whistles blow and I never saw notices in the ne WS papers nor did I ever get notification about this from the mine, tRach time I went to mine 'Bt to go to work the only men that went down ir: the mine were UMy sympathizers. There were about fifteen or tventy of these men and PifW members would not work as long as these 15 or 20 were allowed to work. This was due to the fact that PMk still had & closed shop agreement with Elshoff. I think some of these 15 to 20 men were already signed signed over to UMW. -"T know the following miners who worked at Mine 'B! both before ard after the strike and + believe they Were UM? sympathizers, and ag= zitating for YMi; Cudge 3umgarner also known as Lee Bumgarner, Joe “ibanese, .ndrew Schrelevious, Dominic Pasquale, Pete Carter, Frank ustin, Tony Plotch, Jom (Cotton) ananias, John Sirtout, Jeorge Jacaway, Emory Jacaway, Charles Bohannon, and James Hale. "These above mentioned men aggitated for UM. both before and after the strike, ~L,2- we man re ei ee te commer og cee Tne en cn apremmr meme meme ewan a eme mmamene fa at es Oman eae en ome GR RN R=