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t ' evar presented a nice appearance and told his story in a calm and collected manner. He talk$ in a fairly convinéing manner and it is believed he would be a good witness to testify to those facts within his knowledge. a GHEE -xocutes the following signed statement. It is noted. that this individual might be a reluctant witness in open court. SN, "Springfield, Illinois ~ ; August 27, 1943 make the following voluntary statement both of whom have identified themselvas ; a Brus © e Federal Bureau of Investigation. No threats or promises have been made to me to induce me to make any statement, FT was borr (i a an and presently reside _ I started working at Mine B before the last war and have pefe ever since with the exception of the time I was in the first war. I have never held any office in the union Gut was a member of the UMW. In 1932 there was a dispute that arose between the union and the company as tc the anount of wages. Due to that fact the men in Mine B broke away and formed the P.H.A. Everything seemed to go along fine from 1932 until the time of the strike in 1937. r "Sometime about the first of May, Pete Carter, Tony Plotch, AndyShrevilians, Pasquale, Austin and several others, began agitating “amongst the men; they were calling the men "scabs" & trying to start agitation for the men to join the U.L.W. The territory I was in at the mine had a nice gang of men in that section and we never had any trouble in our section. I know that Bohannon, Plotch and Austin seemed to have a lot of money and were driving nev cars around about that time. I was never approached by any of these men however. I didn't hear of any meeting to be held on the night of May 11, 1937 end do not know whet action the union - took with regard to these men.. On the morning of the 12th I heard that Bowling Green, Angy and Pasquale had been expelled by the union. These men were supposed to be drivers, but they spent most of their time on the sur-_ face trying to talk the men into joining the U.N. J believe it was comin knowledge amongst the men that these men had been fired. “I renember that shortly after the atrike, some officers frow