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RE: JOHN L. LEIS, ET 4b bic bAD INTERVI:..: «ITH QR “1 think the Px menbers convicted in the (continued) bombing cases did not get a fair trial as I ; believe Ulfi had witnesses testify falsely azcinst the PLA members, "Between 1932 and Nay 12, 1937 Ui? did not set up a picket line at tine "B' nor did WWE! distribute any; literature at Mine "B". frior to May 12, 1937 no one attempted to get me to change from PMA to UMA. t8T do not rcnember a wae scale controvery in the Spring of 1937. "J attended a regular mectiny of TH. on the odaht of May 11, 1937. Ido not remembor much ubout the meetin:, but I do rimemb r a member, the namc of whom I do not know, was expcelicd frou Pi, because he was associating with UH. members. I ar unable to furnish any other detziis about the mectin;. I do not know of any other members of PL. being expelled. "On th: mornin, of May 12, 1937 I reportcd for work, some of the ciners stated the mannveuent of Mine "Bt wanted the mine to be UL rather than Pll.. I thou.ht there was foing to be trouble ct the mine thet day, thorcfory, I did not go to work and return to my honc. No one told mc why Mine "Rt went on strike Iby le, 1937, but IT thougat the strike occurred beer se the managment ranted Minc "B" to chunge from FIL. to UN. doa Pi. petition in the Sunner of 1937 naming Pi. es my barg- = at etn «a me” motti¢a an Sat us pe a ke "T did not mow of « new UM? local being formed in the Sumwcr of 13937. In Sept. 1937 I was informed by someonc thet PM. had a picket linc or Mine "BY, I voluntcrily went to Mino "BY to act as a picket. No violence occurred durin; the during the tire I was a picket and onl: Mine "B" miners were pickcts, no outsiders yore brought in. In about Duc. 1937 an injunction -2s obtuined to grcvent picketing at Mine "BY, It meade no differcnee to me whether the injunction Wis served or not. "ft did not kuow of an attempt to open Mine "B" in Dec. 1937 or Jan. 1938. ; "I votcd in the NLRB clcction Dec..15, 1937 for PM 4. So far as I know this clection was fair and I voted the way I wanted to. "JT received notice that Mine "B" was to open in the last part of 1939. I imecdiately received emplozwent. I did not noticc the results of any larvc firés on returning to work, but I did see many cave ins, I returned to Mins "BY as a momber of Fie -154- r