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RE: JOWN L. LEJIS, BT aL. ein winnie PMwAs Wo aes out at the mine so my buddy and Pha} went over to help. ~ {continued) "Nobody threatened me if I didn't go to help with the picketing. I went of my own will. The firat dey there were sbout 1O UeM.W. men over by the Coe office the sheriff sent thase men hame, because if he hudn't maybe there would have been some fights. after this the U.M.7. men did not come back. The picketing wos pesoeful tnd nobody was hurt or bothered. “Je were just at the mine to protest our jobse "Tl remember when we left sane-body oame over and read sonething ant we oll came awey, that wos ell there wus too it no fights no fuss nor enything.e Somo of the mon werc glad to letive but same were mde We all kmew that the mon who read the vaper wos just tending to his business 60 BLCW THAT tne Man ae 22+8 we ceme an homes "ZY dont remember anything about the attempt to open the mine on Dec. 13, 1937. I think I heard about it but I did not go beok end dont remember the detuils now. "I dont remenber anything about the N.L.R.B. selection of Dece 15, 1937. I dont remember ever going to the Armory in Springfield to vote for which union I winteds "I dont romember anything ubout the attempt to open the mine in Jone 1938 under the U.M.We I oon not rect?) anything outstanding happening between din 1958 und Nove 19396 "I dont rember how I found.out the mine wes going to open in Nov. 1939, I dont recell getting any letter I guess I recd it in the punere TY dont think I went back to the mine at once_I think ny bud dy went back ond he told me when my room wis readye When I wont back to work nobody bothered me or tried to get ma to join the UM. I did not see enybody get deat up over at the mine ‘but I heard thet some fellows dide I dont kmow of anything the mamgenent did to show they fuvored the UM... Maybe they did but I dont know. “after we went buck to work I saw more U.N.iT. men come in un- til they were about half ond half. I got sonred muybe there would be trouble so I joined up too. I saw the other men going over so I want over myself. "I dont remember signing nv curd for UMW. or P-Moa. during the summer of 1940. = 205 = TAP ee tye + ap oghter = ae Hse mt ee - . - mn