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RE: JOHN L. LEVIS, LT AL 1 . 5) Ce bry WHT kod not been at any ngetings with Charley Bohannon, and gack Glascéw bcfore the strike. I did not knw about ay orzenizing a.tempts before then. IJ did not sce acnvthing that the. company vas doing to favor one union over the other, As far as I know there were 1o pichet lines or violence of any kind et the mine before the strike. There had been discussion about the vase cetus, but I think the strike was over the union troubie alone. (continued) NJ wes one of the nen who helped orvanize the UM. local. Some nen had tolked to me about it before the mine went out on strike. I had done nothing but t.ik with the men who ruutioned the wetter to me cbout what f thougnt of etin,s back inte the UM.. When the mine was closid, I did fo around and try te get men to jci:. shis iocal. I coitected seversl men at their home. Wo cy: paid my expenses. JI did it in order to help get the mine back into operusion. NT do not rev. wl. when it tss byw I know that we were notificd to come back to work. Tho eempany sint : “a. around to notify us to come back to work, I wont out the Tirst wy, i4 the zsornin.. to help clcen up the mine, since there was no shot firing to oc done, There was @ big bunch of men out there, with their buckets, evider.ti, read; to go to work. Only aoout 15 of us went down that das, Vhos. of us goin; down vere the ones who had been expelled from the PMs, and a few others. It looked to uc as though some of the men wantcd to yo to work, but someone svopped thois, but I did not see anything happen. No one bethcred uc. the next day there was = buneh out ther. too. “hen these mes: cane out, they were the men I had scen at the minc, I heard that tacre vere seme there in th sit down who had not worked nt Mine B before, but ae fa: as Jo oui, mst of them were men vtho iad worked at ine B before, "7 4O Lot recall] any other attumpte -o open the ming until it actually Gid o7cn. NT voted in the election of tho Unions in December 1937. That was a fair election es far as I know. “hen Twit to vote carl: in the morning of the day of the election © nan whose name J ao not know nandcd me a pamphiet. It was Pr? liteuereturce. When I got irside I told someorc about it, and they told me that they would t.ke nim away. I do not know whether the: did or vot. The clection lookcd fiir to me. I do not think that the NLRB men were fuvoring any onc union over the other, tT think that that clcetion was fair, and probe biy reoresurted the feclings of the iiiners at Mine 5. When the strike startcd, I do not know | what the men thought a out the union. T heard a lot of discussion about the chock off being pretty high, and some inn Wondered about whether tho union ~ 393 =