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REa JOHN L. LEIS, ET abe per eRVIE) WITH “Shortly before this cocurence, EDMUNDSON had started his om wmion, oflied the ‘Hank und File Move~ r 440 PIU VO —— 9) ment’, and it soemod to bo progressing protty wells In fuot, whon tho first split ooourred in tho U.M.Ws, the logul at Mine B wus considering joining EDNUNDSON'S orgunizetions I think EDMUNOSON must huvo made sunc kind of c decl with 'l.LEGR, beocuse the * Rank ond Filo Movement! seaned to lose ground, finully quit, &nd EDMUNDSON gct a pesition with the U.M.We I don't imow if EDMUNDSON & “{.LKER had cny agreenents cbvut whet to do with the bellute. However, just after this, WaLKER hud an injumotion agoinst LEVIS in Illinois liftod, und LEVIS came back und signed the secret contruote ‘.5out two weeka after I got beat up, I got a letter from BOHANNON, sty.ng he wanted to see me, und for me to come to UeMelfe halle Iwas .fruid that they might do something to mo if I went down, sc I didn't p.y any attention to ite I didn't hear anything more tbout it, and don't know the purposo of the letter. One day, cbout two weeks before I got peat up, und two days before puyday, I huppened to sane up fran the mino 4 little carly. When I cane up in the onge, I wis tho only P.Men. mn in the oago, 411 the rest boing U.M-We hon wo got to the top, I suw GN sci thore with u lot of money in his hande The U.M.@V¥e mon, who wore on the cage with me, circlod around hin, and he seened to be ing thene I don't renember all the mon in the group, but I did soe >» TONY PLOTCH, BILL SIRTOUT, und , the new min, no ¢ Peele Man, Gs woll us was on't know why wes giving then nonoy, but I hed noticed that the men who had beon imported to organizo for the UsM.W., never got any statenente fran tho oqnpanye The oanpony usuolly gave out the statenents two days boforo pey day, und oll the non go to the office to get their statonontss I noticed tht those inported orgunizers novor went to the offica to get any stusenents, and I thought that oerhaps SLSHO;F wosn't paying thog but tho Ui. wuse Lstor, they bogan getting stotercnts, probebly beoause the eonpuny wuntod to have a cover for theme feefore I wus beaten up at the mine, men oune to my house twiec to ect mo to foin tho UM, One tine, WN ns to thors I didn't know, oane to the: house and asked no temo tno U.Helle Heo told mo that tho Usildi. would got control , und, if I didn't join, Itd losc ny jobs A month or so luter, I don't know just whon, JOE aLB.NZSB, ond DOMINIC and ERNIE DI BsRTOLQUEO oame to the house and asked mo againe I didn't give thom any sotisfootion ut tll, I think this wus sunctino in 1940. "I hud no loading part in the orginizing uf the P.ilfee I swung over with tho nujority. Thorce wero retlly no lecders to the change