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: eld, now Be os he has no criminal regord w nz Bhd cooperstive witness. He speaka =~ — and avpears of average intelligence, == = ° and indicates : English without difficulty The following signed statement was obtained from iiaaaimm™ “Springfield, 111. August 25, 1945 "YT, ze ke the following vo ry ge (eae bg ; whom I know to be Special Agents of the Fo ur 68u nvesvigation. make it without fear of threat, force or promise of any kind knowing it may be used in e@ court of law, “J was born ink, + "In I first joined the UMW while working <a Mine Be | in Springfield, 111. I was a member of UMW until 1932. In Apri _of 1932 there was a strike and I did not work until December of 1955, at which time I went to work in Mine "BY at Springfield at which time I joined the PMA union. From December of 1933 until May of 1957, I worked in Mine "B™ - and was @ member of PMA during the entire tims. "During the time from 1933 until Hay of 1937 1 noticed Elehoff was | friendly with those UMW sympathizers working in Mine "B", These eympathizers vere Charles Bohannon, Pete Carter and several others, about twelve in all, whose name 1 canbet’ remember. Elshoff and these men would have parties in the company office, but none of the fellows who belonged to PMA were af these parties, During this timo the talk among the fellows working in the Nine. *B" was that the UMN was furnishing the money to agitate for UMW in Mine "3" There vas no strong arm tactio noticed by we + but there was a lot of propacanda favoring the UMW. - . . * puping this period between 1938 and 1937 I can remeubor no strikes ” or close downs in Mine “B". But during this time Falcetti would tell us . t of how the tag mine was better off because of the UMW which gave more i i i favors to the company, it would sey that Faloettd triod to influence us ty ‘ minors in Kine "B" to be sympathetic with the UMi, J was of the impression that Falcetti favored those some twelve UST sympsthisers by granting them favors in the mine, like giving them better mules, if the man was 4 driver, is 1% n ee is ae tal 1% or. AS ee a eres f 8 a Ph RS PON OT