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a couple different cones were elected, well then after they went by, when
White got out, when he out, then there was another guy in for
awhile, but he was only in one term, and then Lewis come after and he was
in for a long time.

AV: Did he do a good job?

JS: No, he wasn't too bad, but he was not any too good. He was for himself, too.
He was for himself.

AV: This was the Eckley union?

JS: No, all the unions, all the whole district, you know. All the anthracite.
So that's how they They cheated the men right and left,
all the way, and they're still cheatin'. They cheastin' them now. They
were gonna knock this thirty dollars off, but then a bunch of men down the
line, down in gilberton down there, they got together, they started to look
into these things, you know. And finally they held out six checks for
us already. They were figurin'
for the whole damn thing, you know. Now when the men that worked in the
mines here, in the colliery here, if they died that they give them five
hundred dollars for burial, you know. Now they knocked that off.

AV: They did?

JS: Yeah, they even knocked that off.

AV: When did they first start with that five hundred dollars?

Mrs S: They used to give eleven dollars, now it's five hundred

JS: Quite a long time. They're rotten, you know, they're rotten. I'm tellin'
you. They're no good. I wouldn't say if it was hurtin' them any, or if
they had to pay somethi' to it. But what the hell, they're gettin' their
salaries from the miners, and what the hell do they want to pull
tricks off like that? But see, there is nobody lookin' into it. But now
already the governor got his hands into it somehow. Now they're havin'
cases. Now this case that they shot that man and the wife and the daughter,