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C 7 @ RE: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL brew bD arrived and as we went in I, together Wl ar saw Pasquale take ea gun and try to hide it in a box of some sort by Superintendent Oscar Falcetti's desk. If I ree member correctly, Falcetti, Bohannon, Pasquale, and Al- benese were in the room. notified the Sheriff of what Pasquale had done end after the Sheriff found the gun a search wes made of the other oc} cupants in the room with the possible exception of Falcetti. It was found thet Albanese was also carrying & gun, & revolver of some sort. These two men were arrested on that date for carrying concealed weapons. I do not re- call thst Falcetti said e single word during el] the time that this was going on, It is my — ae however, te ORI toe to Falcetti concern- ing returning to work, and thet actually did go back on his Jobe Shortly efter Ts in the latter part of . eptember, 1937, there wos an attempted opening of Mine B, I, slong with the other employees of Mine B, re- ported for work thst morning end I recell that Falecetti came out and told the men that they would have to be United Mine “iorkers to work ct Mine B, inasmuch as the compeny hid a contract with the UMW of A. Faloetti gave the explana- tion thet he hid nothing to do with the hiring of tne men and that he was simply cirrying out orders. On thet date only ten or twelve fellows went down to work in the mine, these being the ten or twelve men whe had been expelled en fran, T oon] GA Tore wee Ho vwinlonan «ct the mines eIithnaue come utiarde mi aeht Prom woe Ute tnerée wos No violence 2 the mine, fitnougn some words migat have been passed, "I also reported te work on the following duy with a number of the men from Locn] 54, On this date no one went down into the mine and to the best of my recollection, the Sheriff of Sangznon County was present and re- guested the ten cr twelve men who went down the previous diy to stay in the cabin for their own protection. "From thet dav on the men simely stived out at the mine rendyv to POM Whee OY Ue A Gud Oa ayed ean) 2 “J 5 to work at any time the minagement would put them to work. It was sbout this time that we received word, more or less in the form of ©, -umor, that the United Mine “orkers were going to try te put the mine in operetion with in- ported strike breakers, principrliy from the Penbody Mines down on the Midland track in Christinn County, which were all corgsnized by the UMW of A. This picketing continued up until the latter part of November when a Federal in- junction wis cbtuined by Elshoff enjoining the men from coming on to the property. I left the mine about the middle of Novemser cnd wis not present when this in Junction wos served. aitia Made 3 "I reeell starting out to Mine B on the morning of January 4, 1938, et which time there was another sttempted opening. I rode out with rw Eowever, before we renched the mine some of the men coming bee at the mine would not be put in operation, sc we returned to Spring- = 420 ~