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ea tamed am LS amet a ale Sot ee Re: JOHN L. LEIS, ET JL. INTERVIB 7 ITH He told me that there ras going to be a meeting of the local at the Elks's club the next sunday. J had heard that the committee had gone and tried to find Mishoff, and could not find him, and had gone to Ray Bdmmson, ‘Bmunson vas supposc3 to have told them that rhat they ought to do vas tO go to a neutral hall, amd have a have a meeting and decide what ¥e ought to do. NT vent to that mecting. a "Por for the cormittee. vho Lives on College Stree csi.ded that night, There was supposed to be sone other mecting after the meeting I had been at, and the Lweting on this sunday, but 1 vas not there, or did not knov about it before. That afternoon Ithink almost evervonce tho had been torking at Hine £ vas therc, except avout tro dozen. There vere none in the meeting hall rho had not vorked at the mine, although there vers cany standing around out side of the building. J vas told that these men on the outside tere supposed to be UM mon tho vere there to sec that the Pf. men did not came to cause any trouble. Continue 4", ftor the meeting vas opened, dc announce : re ni 2 to lin Shoii, a a gone to Ediunson, Hdmunson, ves supposcd to have told thea thet he tould pro=- misc that the Dune (2) vould open if it vent Uy because they had a contract vith slshoff vhaich ras such that when one convsany op- rated tro mines, that the union could force a division of labor, Then a said that he did not bclicve that the mine vould be reopened as a Pl. e nen scened to fecl that vay too, and they voted. There vas only one man rho did not pet up to vote to go to the Uf.. They then elected officers of the local to ncgotiage and ask for a UM charter. . he up then after the election, and said that bo= for: yc asked for a chartcr ve oupht to get ahold of Edmunson and have hin tcll us what the situction tas. I said That I thought IT could find him, I think said thet they could get ahold of him. Ten to ~ tyonty minuces zr Edmundson, qunson's socr:tary, eee and a couple of oth r men not Knot came over. unson then mad? a speech, Ye did not say much oxcept that he vas plad to have them back in the UM, and that there vas no sense in fighting etc. He seid that he vould li ec to have the committcc that had been elected go over end ssc if they could not mect vith Elshoff right then. Edmunson then asked the men to come up and sign up Tith the UY so that then fic want to ~ f#ishoff he could shov him that he had a majority, and could demand a division of the vork and open Mine 4. The men then vent up front and sigmad up. AV but about three of us signed up rirpht then. I began to vonder, and thought that things vere a little too rell planed, and so I just tent along vith the committee rhen it vont over to Ediminson’s office vith hin, - 576 ~