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pentane et ee ee tL. in C Q Rie JOHN L. LEVIS, ET aL. INTER) pada "I attended most of the UM and Pua meetings while I worked under these unions. ‘(continued J "I do not recull the details or circumstances cf the wage soxle controversy, but generally speuking I wes interested in the Pll, because I liked the wion. I felt the miners were being treoted fairly under the Pilas "I think ELSHOFF'S attitude towerd the Pili was clearly indi- ected when he wus finally shown by the first N.L.R.B. clection that the Pin had the vest majority und he still would not open the mine ond let the Pil. miners work. "after the mine had been closed down on trike for sametime, it becume cammon talk umongst the miners thot ELSHOFF muat be getting puid by someone to keep his mine closed. "T never saw t Ui? picket line at the minee I never sow any Uf; liter.ture distributed at the mine while 1 worked ct Mine B. "Tt wos the general opinion at the mine the following non who were working as members of the Als at Hine B were bought over by fi to ugitate for thut union ot thot mine: JOE .LBNESE, «lDRBI SCHRELEVIOUS, DOMINIC P.SQUaLZ, PSTE CARTER, FRANK «USTIN, TONY PLOTCH, JOHN (COTTON) uQuNL.S, JOHN SIETOUT, GEORGE dnGil iY, EMURY JaGJay, CE.RLSS 30H.NNON, und JidfkS HuLd. "I observed that CH.RL&S BUHANNON und sNDREi SCHRELEVIOUS apent co lot of money in burs cnd saloons in aamtam Springfield, about two years before the strikce They scened to hive u lot of moncy 211 of a sudden. It looked like theso nen whose neunes ure mentioned above were more prosverous during the veriod betwoon 1955 und 1937. No one hus ever telked to mo tbout joining the Ui. Howe ever, many of the miners were cnorouched for this purpuse, but I gucss they thought I was too strong from the Pie "I attended the Pil Specinl meeting on Mey 11, 1937 when sono miners, about five I think, were thrown out of the PH. unione 1 voted to hove thom throvm out because there wus evidence that they were double-crossing the Pie I can not remomber the testimony tguinst them, but I remember that it wos strongly oguinst then. I do remomber thet aNDRE; SCHRELZEVIOUS, TONY PLOTCH, PETER C.RTER, und DONINIC PaSQU.LE were included in this group who wore thrown out of Pline - 114 - seer ce ede a ee SARE Sige gh re ‘