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OHI E&G Aguayo 304085 sS:42 L I could see how you would be. EA I was scared. I thought, oh, they are are having problems. I know he had taken a rifle. And oh, I was just 00 L You had taken a rifle. GA Yeah, but they never really got anything ike, like I say, most of it was just to showoff. Thel'K)st trouble I ever had on a pick line is - is - well, I should sya, they took my picture one time, the company. You k-ow, they have the public relations on the picket, because they try to scare you. And they sent the sherrif up there. I was on thepicket line. And they sent a sherrif up there with - what do you call it, not a subpoena, a warrant - a warrant. That doesn't sound like the right word either. But anyway. The paper said, you guys stop interfering with the traffic, ~·re going to arrest you. Andthen he parked his car right there, alongsidecf us. And about this time, ah, one of these big tractor trailers came up with a dozer, ontop of .it. He's going to go up the hill. So I stopped thetruck any-way. And I talked to this guy, -he was a teamster driver and I talked him into unloading the tractor right thereat the bottom of the hill. He unloaded it. L How did~utalk him into it. GA Nothing. I told him we were on strike, told him, you are supposed tobe a good union man, this and that. The teams~ers, they have a reputation not only for being run by Mafia, but I guess forr:eing good union members. You know-- to him it wasn't--in fact, he probably thought it was a good deal. He had an excuse -- he didn't have to go, you know, climb the hill. Probably saved him an hour's work.