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en Re: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET AL Lb INTER Ere ®I don't remember getting a notice of reopehing £ nm i Sam t TOO T Aontt reeoll hee learned a of the r 1 ase a Gon'y retail. no IrrReS continued thet the min after I went back to work at iiine B after the reopening in November / 9, Cudg> Baumgardner spoke to ne about joining U.K.W. He said that the / oc. woulda win the next election, and I inferred fram what he said that I; is Dine: wold lose my job if I did not sign up. Cotton Ananias also spoke to me several tines about joining U.M.. Bohannon, who was my driver, did not insist too strongly that I join the U.I.v. I remember that told me that I had better com to the U.UL. meeting because the mfhe Was coing U.U.J., and there would be no job for me if I did not sign up with ae UU... Frank Austin also talked to me abut joining U.i.7. Tony Plotch , told me that line B was poing U.M.U., but I don't remember that Plotch ever asked me to join the U.M.N. Jimmig Hue spoke to m several times about joining U...w. a couple of time. OF was to reopen. also talked to me several times about joining U.N.i. He did not have much to say. None of these men ever threntened me or -.bused me. NI recall that , was an air checker at Kine B. There was // no such positicn at the mine before the strike started in 1937. soent most of his time talking o NI hoard a lot of rumors about U.1i0. activities going on in Hine B, tut I can't remember exactly chit these rumors were. morning in t . wash house at iline B, I saw These 2 a aid the beating wen Seman I did not sec anyons clsc beat any of the miners. Jt is my opinion tnet these meg wore beat up because they would not join the U.cdi.v. ; i ann nf = tha anc wie Son Gi As I recall and sth told ne this. But, even if they did not tell mg, Iam sure in my own mind that thet is the reyson why these men were beaten up. I also recall that 2 fellow named wis beaten up. The sheriff was at the mine when these beatings were going on, but he did not do anything. "In my opinion the m.amizenent seemed to do everything they could do E for the U.lv. nen, and everythine they could do to harm the P.U.d. men. The Ul. men were very friendly with the management, and seemed to be running the shov themselves, not Elshoff. i "about a week after Es beaten up, I sicned up with U.tiet, I herrd that there were only men left in the P.M.a. when I left then to sirn up with U.N. I heard that everyone wis sirning uo with U.i., and I had an idea that if I did not join the U.M.. soon, someone would try to give me a benting.