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RE: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET aL INTERVIEJ {1TH ens exception-=<a man by the neme of po as voted (WTA. Soontinuse ream ccnp’ During thi HUF seemed to get along very we With the FProre gressiv s: there we erievincesa of eourse, but these . ra re grievencea of cour but these were settled "hn the due course of negotiations, without any inter= ruption of work. Most of cur dealings were with OSCAR FALCETTI, the superintendant of the Mine. "One dey early in April 1937, TONY PLOTCH came up to me in the wish house at the mine end said ‘do you kmow that we are not going | to get any back pay for the time that we have worked from April 1.* i I said, "who told you were not going to get any rebroauotive pay.' i He seid thet OSCaR PaLCriTI the superintendent told him thate I then soid we will go over and see that superintendant.e I went over with | PLOTCH and a bunch of other fellows. I asked FALCETTI if he told PLOTCH that we were not going to get any retrouotive poye FsALCEITI soid that he did not tell him in those words thet he wos not going to get it, but told PLOTCH thot he did not see how the miners were going to get the book poy under the agreement that ELSHOFF hed signed. Then Paloetti showed me the cantruot, ond asked te if I saw anything in the ogreanent that seid the minors were going to get book pays T said that I did not know anything about that; that it wos up to the officials of the Union to decide things like thote after thet con- ference I went with the Pit Committee oomposed of to gee the bourd menbe or our - d us thet contruct he signed with FLSHOFF wis pind- tricte und celles for retroaotive back pay. arringenents were mide for a to oome out und talk to the men the next mornings o&me out to the mine the next morning ond told the men that they e going to get retrosotive poy, und that ELSHOFF would huve to live up to his eontracte On this morning FRLBETTI end the bosses refused to let the men go down into the mine saying tht it wos too litte to go to worke The time to begin work work wos 6 AM, und the time thut the bosses refused to let us work wis before 8 o'tclockse On the following day wee eek eee de ken bh mind +a oame out and saw to it Was the Me WU UR 2 bly oid —., after I had worked o while this day I received word thet I end the Pit Committe were wanted on tope We went up end found © group of men, TONY PLOTCH, ANDY SKRELEVIEUS, JOE LEBANESE, DOMINIC PaSQuaLE, PRTE CaRTER, and a few other people. On this dey these mon who were {/ later tried and found to be ootive tho the TMi, oguin stuted that we were not going to get any retrosotive pay, und this time they had yollow pieces of paper which they hod to support their story which they said they got from the ood] compuny. J aoguin went to FALCETTI'S office with these men. Fuloetti sontinnued to say thet he did not tell = 26 «