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management of Mine B prior to 1932, ment with the Frogressives as e00n as _ ey ware organized, there wae no force used (continued and he went of his own free wille So far as we know there was no trouble between the P.MA, and the mine menagenamt up until the etrike in 1937. So far as we are ayare there was no real indicatiop of trouble or preference on the part of the management for the Usie’s aR: feel there there was gone slight indication of thie but he didn't know too much about it. “hile the Progressives were in we had no trouble with the officials. 1. lt they wers honest and we could always be heard when we wanted to. aban: not attend many ~eetinge while the Progressives were in as he could not understanc but I attended most of theme As far ee the finiances of the Union were concerned ve were always sotisfied the money vas soent properly. We vere given | report et the meetings es to the expenséte ‘+e do not feal thet those F.l’.a. men who were sent to prison for the bortings vere the guilty ones this wae the general feeling among the men at the time. Fricr to the strike the U.i.s:. never came to the mine or bothered the F,i.A. wen in eny way so fer ae we know. Prior to the strike ve had never heard of there being any mon in the Fei sis who vere trying to pting the men beck to Usiels freither of us heve ever heerd enything cbout Elshofi or Faolsetti piving ony perties for DU... . officials. “Ae we remember in the spring of 1937 we worked from the first of april until the etrike uncer on acreement that when an egfeement was finally eettled or any inorease vould be retroactivee We always felt thet Feiede vould bo able to get es good a contract for us &s anyone else. There vas some slight feeling of unrsst during earily May and April of 1937 over the fact that the mens poy raise was not coming through but there vas no trou‘le over thise ‘eo had no idea et all of the manegements e+titude on the vege question at thet time. “e rerember hsering of some ection «ken a short time before the sirike, by the tricl board oageinet “Cotton” Ananiseas end Chee. Pohenon. we gont recsll the nature of this Qotione “I recall going to a meeting the night before the strike =! did not cttend thir reetings As I remembor the meetin: dealt with what to do about “Cotton” and Ches. Eohanon and elgo our back wagese There was no etrike talk ct this -cseting and vhen they called us up out of the mine the next dey it .ce 2 suprise to mee The morning of the rtrike there was come Gispute at the mine cbout the F.!’.A. men working vith thecexpolled man. The manegement had refused to fire certain men and the Pe’ ese mon did not went to work vith them. Asve recell some men hed been trying to cet the P.iec, men to get out of there union and ~ ~1l2h- Fer er ae Se re rn UT ane i RI ig ee Te RWS Oe ce em em ee ee