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Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL zi Dy ee I saw Oscar Falcetti and he put me back t.9 work in box CUuC SS y a He did not say a thing about what union I belon:ed to, Nothing was sai out the wages but I thot it would be the regular dllinois waze scale. The gossip around was that when the PA went over to UMW we would have a contract. JI did not see many nevi men ot this time but after a couple of months they hired a lot of new UNY men from Mo., Indiana and other states. About one quarter are still there but st are all They hired only UMW men and would not hire : _ phonetic) of a. and (phonetic) als 1., both were men 2nd they went over to 2 PLA min. Kine Band asked for jobs but they were told they had no openings but the next coy the hired 4 -~ 5 UW men. "at the mine a track layer and a fellow named "Cotter" or somes thing like tmt face to me about joining over. I was working in vox § — ae eo who ws in send Bill, the trac ; 0 sce Me end EL oid me I shoul UM! because the shot firer hed signed and that the check weictht-man had alrsady signed. I told Bill X ee the check weirh-man hid not signed and Bill then went back in and sar and asked him and Bill came “back and told me thot an at Iwas right and that had not joined. wo got beat up. I told B en that when ¢°9 vould sign up I woule simn too. Bill did not threaten me. "about a weck later this "Cotter" asked me to sirn up and he said that he would protect me and I told him he woulcn't have te protect me as I can protect myself, "PA did not do anything in regard to getting men to join over as they felt they still hac the majority. No one crused me to be fined nor did anyone bother me but stole tools from my bucdy, ANDY fron Ni., were stolen from him but they never stole mine. Later on when ad signed over to UMW this same "Cotter" told me that no one would lose any more tools. In _ sumver of 1940 I never signed any membership card for PMA or UNT. When Iwent back to work I kept on paying dues to Pua and no one forced me to pay those dues. Iw ed t> sien oer to UNe Saabs AUG uk (phonetic) told me to tel _ f the bricks start to fly and Pore BaTaa {TENER., that I would sign up only vith Lae nd this wrs 4 i “told me this ang this took place about’a month or so befor- ‘s ‘ ‘age and he_rot secred and never went bick to work acain, for abows 4 month and iho te vent brick to Mine 3B office ind said he «ic coming back to work gee me ep em weg ee cE Rm RE NE RM REE a I ~