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JOHN Le LEIS, ET AL. INTERVIEY WITH strike started or not. (continued “I was not doing an’ orgenizing for the UW before the strixe started. I do net kum toast envy wee going on, I know thet the: e¢ wee some diffieulty cbhbout a cortract, and remember saying c few tives to the men tist they did rot heve eny tdea how muah monoy they were moeking, because there was no contract. I do not recall whet the strike started over. I wes werking on top that day, and when I came to work John Sohneider told sc Lnev I was not gei:g vo go to work. I told hin Ivec, I ren tho evitru engine on top thet day, beesuse wae: usually ran it wes not werking theu, Sehnoider did not dere Livexten we thet aay. ne had many tt os osfore, and severcl times had tulire thet ho was going tc ihrov me corn the shaft. The day the strike et.ccad, the men werg concline up verr emall coarse There Woe not gneugs oul coving up t- keep me working, end eo I had gone hone befers tnc moa acsouel yp vem. up- £ to not recall whether Ient back vo the wine te work rho soxt day or rot. I fo nos recall every passing or eigning any petition for either unions. “At the tine of the strike, I hid boon oxpelled from the Progressive iiinc Workers. There hed bocu some dissansion about tho way the con were rum ing the loesl thon, and *he wey the finances of the local wore boing opereted. Until I was expelled from tho PLN of A, I did not care much which union I belonged to, es long as I could work. If I had not besn expelled, I sould just as soor have stayed in tho PI of As I did not attend the me tings, J dic not make much differance tome. I1 do noc know how the rost of the mon av the mine felt cbhout the loesl,. x Kafter Iowee expelled from the FIR, neturelly I had to be with the UN if I ~as going to work at all. I had alveys thought that “6 ought to hove only one union, ana not heve two unions, but I did not cosre porcticoularly which union it was. "Before tus strike I h=d done no crganising, and hed received no money fron tho WW for working or oxpenscs. i did not kmow then that anyone else hed becn doi.g any agitating, or orgtniaing et the rine, and @id not know thet they hed been expeliod. I had nevor heard anyone canplein about the unions there. “After the etrike, I want down to my folks place, and ca ped on the river, I did a little organizing then. That is, I took WH cards sround to men I knew and asked them about joining the UH. I got some money for @cing this. I do not know whose money it was, wa eres Bem ke opp curt omgsten a ~<a? ity F =e SPL TURD Mbt 0 eee Ly A ia