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hy a ot Lo rr cs - hae ee Re: JON L, LEWIS, ET AL. INTERVIEW wITH had difficulty in understan tions asked of him, Dut he responded in 4 cooperative way. It is not believed that he would make a good witness, He said he has no criminal record, His statement ig as follows: "Springfield, Illinois September 17, 1943 "I, make the following voluntary statement to an whom 1 know to be Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigat-on. No threats or promises of any kind have been made to me: I have been told i need not make any Statemert and that this statement can be used in court, "I was born in I entered the United States at New ork City about alized citizen of the United States at Springfie here since about at that time 4 belonged to the Unite? Yire workere. ine mion At this time seemed to get along ali right With the saine "al, I was in favor of the change to the frogrccrtive Mine Workers because we thought we would have better conditions. I liked the Progressive Mine iorkers union during the time I belonged to it as I felt it represented the miners. I would belong to it now if I had my own way. "I am now aan at Kine 'A' as a digger. I have been employed "I heard about the sale of Jiine 'A' to Carl Elshoff through the newspaper and through my fellow miners. JI aiso received a letter from Bill -yan saying he had sold the mine and that I was no longer an wseo =f wae «OTA CT T +¢heiuie thant ower 4208 trae an ess T daha nna employee O12 wine ag a thought bible LY Joo Was BV WUILEss ft Jussieu the United ifine workers. "I was satisfied with the way the Frogressive Mine #orkers handled grievances with liine 'A'. "I heard that Elshoff was going to qerate Kine ‘A' through hdine 'B' and that he wouldn't operate ine '«' unless it was wider the United Mine sorkers, I didn't think Elshoff would reopen Mine ‘'A' under the trogressive kine workers and so 1 voted to become a United Mine Worker so I could keep my job. These stories which I heard from the other miners influenced me to become a United wine ~orker. "I did not atterd any of the meetings of the employees of Mine tat at which it war decided tu tccom> United Mine Werkcao. I decide2 to join - 325 - ET . .