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an, al ra C _ 0) Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL bre bp INT n "J don't remember any P.M.A. meeting the night before the strike. On the day of the strike, at the end cont 1nue of the day, I heard there was a strike, and didn't go back to the mine the next day. I think the strike was Over some wage dispute, but I'm not sure. I -did hear that Frank Austin, ang a couple of others whose names I can't remember were kicked out of the P.M.A. because of U.L.W. activities, but I don't know anything more about it. "IT remember that I signed a P.M.A. petition just after the strike. As I remenber, this petition was to find out how many men favored the P.M.A. It seems to me that I signed one at Mine B, but I don't remember who took the petition. around, and I signed it because I preferred the P.M.A. to the U.M.%. No one made me sign it. I don't remember signing any U.M.W. petition this sumer. "In the sumicr or fall of 1937, Bohannon came to my home at vat Springfield, and asked me to join the U.M.W., saying e€ mine was going to open up U.E.1%. J told them that if they opened up U.M.. they would onen up without me, because I didn't like the U.M.F. He didn't threaten m or try te force me. There were some other fellows in the car, but I didn't recognize them. I started to work at my present job shortly after that. "T remember petting a letter from Elshoff that the mine was going to open, and giving me a certein time to come back to work. I don't remember just vhen I got that letter, because I had my present job and wasntt intending to go back to the mine. "In the fall of 1937 I was out at the picket line at line B, when I wasn't working. I wasn't forced to go out, and never saw any men there who reren't Mine B men. ‘le were pickcting, as I remember, to keep the U.E.W. men from going to work. I think the injunction was gotten te get the P.N.A. men away from the mine, so the U.K... men could get into the mine to work. "In the election of December, 1937, I voted for P.M.A. because I liked it better than the U.M.1%. I don't remember any strong-armed tactics at the election, and think it was a fair election. After this clection I had nothing more to do with Mine B. I had made up my mind not to go back to the mines, and I will never mine coal for LewisSe "T have read the foregoing, consisting of about three and a half pages, and state that it is true to the best. knowledge, (Signed;™ ba Witnesses: Special Agents, F.B.I. Springfield, Ii1." 188