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me el ee eS en a ee ee Re: JOHN L. Le-IS, ET AL b -, L — 2b join the U.L.". These men we remember were Semmy (Jog Albanese) Andy Echrelevious, Dominic eee Fasquale, Pete Carter, Frenk Austin, Tony (continued) Floteh, John (Cotton) Ananies, John Sertout, Geo. & Emory Jacaway, Chas. Bohanon é Jemas Halee ‘6 also remember some talk about wages but the Chief cause wae over not venting to work with these mene We dont recall anything about cars being logxded chort on the dey of the strike, nobody,came and told us to load ther thet way. ZI only loaded one car that dey it was full and as fer og I know ig still in the mine. Shortly before ‘quitting time cone company man told us to come out of the mine. ‘shen we got on top they told us wevwere going on strike. It wosonhky then ve knew theie wee to be & strike. After the mine closed they picketed out at the mine for a short - Eeither & ever eigned eny retition for J.’ . but both of us signed savera Sr relene There vere alwaye signed of our own fregs will and ve were estified vith Fak.4ée We knew thet there was ¢ Us)... loeal formed in Epri vet nere the summer of 1937.6 1 Ps 2h Vii ot neither of us vere aksed to join but we hear threatened if they didn?t. “There wee nothing unusu.l thet heppened during the summer of 1937 as fcr cs we recall. "Vc heard ct the boll thet the mine wes to reopen in Sept of 1937 cné we vent out to go to work. There woe & dispute at the mine that cay as to whether the ming vce to ba opened ae Peres. or Ueie’ es ‘a did not go gown in the ming tnat day and cont remember anybody VOreinges ie vere ct the tine most of the time the picketing went nat y pescoful, we vere just there to protect ourrjobse. a counle of Ul ay men did come to the mine one dey & sttyed for cbhout 15 or 20 min. cround noon there was no trouble then. 411 of the men who. took part in the strike were from our ovn local. Nobody forced ue to stay ct the mine ond wo ecdme and vent ae we wished. FetiedA. furnished us vith everything we needed. ‘e rere both at the mine when-the mershsll eame out and read the injunct1ons The men left peacefully, tho miners on a XY iho Ve Va) 424 5 meant afagt a ~ Ub a (iV S folt thie Pua tly defat. L for FeleAe ™o heerd thet they vere going to reopen the mine under the Ue is} « right after the marshcll caused us to lecva. ‘6 disn't go ; beck becouse of the pending Fel... election. “e both voted for Pelee 7 at the firet X.L EB. aleotions, this vere an honest clection and ve z voted ths way we wanted. There vere sane lecflets ptseed to the group I wor in by U.l.”. mon urcing us to vote U.P... I heard that the U.i.W. had contacted some men trying to get then to vote U.N.W. The =a saat wa peer Seer, _ as - ea le Bf Oup that Se wee in did not get eny Gi Chess len Fock +125—