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JOHN L. LEWIS, KT AL bre baa were not letting the men go to work there, so I did not go back to the mine to work. I did not go (contin ed) out ani stay on the company property vhen the sit down strike was in progress, I had a job to do eee a I later went on TTA, I did not vote in the ection jour the unions at mine B in Decem>ocr 1937, and did not go back to the wine or have anything to do vith the mine until it reopened in 1939. Then I went back to the mine in 1939 I got the job or vorking on the bottom, repairing, and working on the machinery, I had to go down cach morning at € A, and oil the machinery etc, before the men got there to go down. So I did not see anything that happened around the pit on the top, I did not see any fights, or any ‘Gece of any kind, although I heard that there was some, and did hl: a cut on the cage when he came down in a cer, and said that. he nec oem beaten Up. "Charly Bohennon was the only one who ever asked me to join the Us. A week or so aftcr the mine reopened in 1939 he came to me enc day on top, and asked me what I was going to do, and which union I was going te go with. I told hin that I did not know and would let him know later, That night I was talking to the fellov that I ride with, and he eas a little disgusted with the PHY because of the fines they had put on him for working the sixth day in a week, and because he had not gotten the fines back gashe cxpected to. He said he was going to go U7, and I decided that I -tould go with him. I did not ask any one to join the UL. "T knev ¢ slightly at the mine. I did not know who he was until le ter, bub Iosev himet the mine regularly. He was a sort a safety man. Ne had not been at the mine before the strike. There were men doing safety vork at the mins before, but the® stayed on vhyie was working there, and are still on, Wo one vas hired to tak< place. «then he left. "NT have known Osear Falectvi personelly for any veers. I vent out vith him many times, and I never heard him say anything about which union he vented us to haves at the mine. I never saw anything at the minc indiccting that they had any preference.