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ce ee eg me RE: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET AL 7a “EOD . ITERVIE.: WITH er perp perce coc Illinois, was inter- a uy viewed at his home by upecial Agents 7 Samy: GRE © Septecbe= 1, 1943. It is not believed he would make a good witness due to his inability to speak “nglish fluentiy. He has no known criminal record. He furnished the following signed statement: - —_ m1. September 1, 1943 male the following voluntary statement sip ho are Special Agents of the Federal Bureau ol Investigation. No threats or promises of any Kind have been made to get me to make a statenent and I do so knowing it may be used in a court of law. "T was born I came to U. S. in 7 became a naturalized citizen of U. &S. in mI first joined U I“! Union in ay Gt to as worked in a mine therc. Later in began 1 OrKing 2 ne "B"." T have not held an office in any union. — eel "In 1932 I joined P. M. A. because all the men in U li 7 were changirre to P H A so I changed too. _ L i. - a mmament ‘ "There were no strikes or close-downs that I know of between 1932 and 1937. Sometime in the lst part of May 1937 a group of men at the mine while waiting to go down the shaft said several men had been expelled from the P.M.A. for spying. No one approached we in any way to join U.M.". At the end of that day we were called out on strike and I understood that it Was because the mana;enent had refused to stop those men who had been expelled from continuing to work in the wine. . "Y don't recall sipyming any petitions in the sumner of 1937. "In Sept. 1937 I read in the paper that Mine "B" was going to re- open so I went to the mine to work and when the whistle blew for work only ie + 47 + - about 13 mon started to work and they were U NY members do we began picketing. I picketed at the nine for 56 days until an injunction was served on us. Only Mine "B" :men picketed the mine then. *T voted in the N L RB election in Dec. 1937 and P NA won by 404 - to 25. It was a fair electi-n as far as I could see. No violence of any i kind occurrec at the election. - 424 «