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: wr i INTERVIEW ITH , Springfield, vf — Tllinois, was interviewed at his lone on September 1. 3942 \. by specie ee. 3 ee a wy epecia Aer nts eee \\ able to ndecstend iciish very well an — to expres? hta-e ily Ez X speaks clearl* anc 18 easy to uiderstand. He claimerc to he Te n0 Seirdnal record. . "Sprinepfitie, Th c “y ce Sepyericcs 1. ise}. " ie following statement frsely and voluntarily fo ant See ha identified "themselves ee | hs 1peco meri name a aT Yedsern Bureau of Investigation. No threats or promises have been mle to me to obtain this statement. Paa oal UO. T onne to tre ‘4 “ "T presently live at and I am employed b* the "7 was born in tindtan C#tataeac in Se ad ae Federai court in er "I first joined a mine wion, the United Line “/Jorkers in Peoria, Ill, JI stayed in this wion until I joined the Progressive tT tf Wie workers of america at Mine Zin 1936. I rejonnec the U.H. 7. scme time in 1941,as I recall, wien I was working at Mine & the miners were satisfactory. The officers of P.M.4. seened to be good men, clean and square, and trying to help tae mners, J think that the relations between P.J.a. and Dishoff were 0.4%. AS I recall there were no extra assessments by P.H.a. except te pay death bene-~ fits to members of P. Nea. "J don't know anything about any activities of any U.7!..;. men or organizers befvre the strike in 1937, Prior to the strike I never received any literature from U.1L. = 363 ~ i . "J always thowsht that the relations between P.t' a, officials and 7”