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= 4 . REs JOHN L. LEVIS, BT aL es 2, INTERVIET: aT as interviewed ty S gents and GED «prears to know nothing conce av mine B, it Dene =3t that he was unaware at the time that a strike had been calles at sare FB, He would not make a satisfactory witness, he neither reads nor #7ites English, and expresses himself with difficulty. - He furnished the following sized statement: "Springfieid, Tll. Sept. 1, 1343 CT — a ah Fi ie ee ee, Pe Cn ey San oe make the following voluntary statement both of whom have identified thenselves as Mpecias A-ents of the Federal Sureau of Investigation. No threzts or promises — have been made to induce me to make a statement. "I was born and have been a citizen since I presently reside at I came to Illinois in and started working in the mines then. joined the U. NM. @, union and have never held any office in any unicn. avr ~ L in "I started working for Mine B in about and at that time I was a member of the Progressive union since “JI ha en working at Peabody #5. I have never attended many of the unionametings and so I don't have any © information as to why the mine went on strike. I went to work on the day of the strike and worked that whole doy a digger. When I came home that day nobody told me there was a e and in fact I got up the next morning & waited for the men to pick. me up to go to work. when the men didn't come for me I went far a walk and saw some miners who told ma the mm m tril ma wae [4 f=7 Wr a Wee SA FP WE OP Lo "I remember that after the strike I signed a petition at Froyressive union hall to go down to work. I think I sijmed some other petitions. After the strike I heard that some of the .rogressive men were spies for the United. I do not know the names of any of the men who were supposed to be spies, . "I never vent to the win. while it was shut down and never was in the picket line. I voted in the election of Dee. 1937 and as far as TI was concerned everythinz went along fine. "J went back to work at the mine in 1939 when I got a letter telling me to come back to work. I went back to work and took uo my old job. I joined the U. HK. %. a couple of months before the election at the mine in February in 1941. J joined the U. M. W. union because I thou,ht all the rest were joining up and I didn't want to lose my job. Nobody even told = S78 «