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Re: JOHN L. LOWIS,' ET AL "I recall being prosent when our officers met with Elshoff and assured him of our willingness to go back to work, At that timo we told him that we did not want the expelled men to return, but that if it was later d B&B wieht te, unel PUA wuld vreimhures Bleahsf? for a Ss Oy ed ee Ft me fF estadig TR a et id ie a a aw, have been put to as a result of keeping these men from 1937, stating that Mine B would open, ‘When we wont thorc, ready to go to work, Falcetti said that hc needed some men that morning to go to work, but that they would have to be membors of the United Minc Workers. ‘When we \ hid gone there thet mornin we all oxpected to go to work. However, in view of what Falecetti said we knew that they intended to open the mine under U.M.., if possible, Pan 7 "I recall that Elshoff put an ad in the paper, sometime in September, } ae Voy "A picket linc was started by P.M.A. at that time in order to prevent the opening of Mine B by U.M.., the men stayod there on the picket line to -vrotect thoir jobs, I stayed on The picket line os long as it lasted, coming home on weck ends, Tho only men on the line were membcrs of P.u.A. Sometime in December, 1937 we wore sorved with an injunction issucd by the Fedoral hed. Court, making us get off of the property. Some of the men didn't want to : icave but 1 urged them to lcave, I don't beliove there wos any bad fceling about this for anyone oxcept Elshoff, This was the last time I was ot ‘anc Band this was the Inst thing I had to do with the ontire affair, I voted in the NLRB election at the Armory in December, 1937 and the election wos quiet, with no troubla, Everyone voted as they felt and P,M.A. won the clection. I went dircetly from my home to the polling place and voted. At this tinc I made up my mind to leave the mines and not go back unless it was to manage a mino of my own. "I have rcad the above statement and declare it to be true and correct to the best of my memory. x "“Titnessods: (signed) signed) "special Agents, F.eB.le, U. S. Deptt. of Justice" = 10 =