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art /) Ree JOHN L. LenS, ET AL te a 1. “ , al . . “ 1a . } i» Aoo- 2 / Ce aa» 2 # << .t INTERVIEW 51TH The following investigation was conducted by Special Ck Illinois, on Septem ember 1, advised that he neve Agents interviewed arrested in his life. Illinois, from 1937 to 1941, hat SP: 2 very intelligent man and appeared to know a lot “about salon affairs. Be stated that he would be willing to testify if callod upon but his wife remarked that if he did testify she hoped ha would not lose his job. He would make an excellent witness. % re bed that a ee rd 3 a He 2 ct In regard to the affidavit mentioned hereinafter it might be stated that the same is file in the Springfield Field Division, and it is one that was signed by and several other peregns at Tliinois. on August 25, 1937, and it made reference to CHLRLESROTE, (now deceased) - to attending a UMW meeting. Paves tot oh oe ot ee a VEIL ble naa relative whe urnished agents with a signed statcment which he signed and it is as follows: and initials Ill. Sept. 1, 1945. *T give the following statement to end ey who are known to me to be Spocial agents of the ral Bure of investe Wo throats or promises have beon made me and I make this statement of my own free will and volition. “ty address is ee Ill, I was born in Po] =. now work for Peabody Coal co. where 1 have been omployed for the last Then I was Dot @ I joined the UMv at Auburn, Il], I have been a me yrse er of the “Pit Conmmitten” at the Verdin,Mine this was a PMA union and wae before I went to Mine "B". J started at Mine "B" in Aug. 1936 as a Track layer I was then a member of the PMA. “From the time I started in Mine “BY, = remember that Falscetti wes sore because tho UM was letting the mines contracting with them have a half hour clean up time to hoist in, the PMA would not permit this and FALSCETTI was ‘displeased. Before the mine closed there was talk in the mine that the men were going UMw within a certoin time. “iy experience with the PMA has always been that it is a rank and ~ file members Union. I attended some meetings of the PMA while at Mine "B* but not all. I took more interest in the Progressivos because of the dirty _ deal we had gotten fram the Un. There never appeared to be anything crocked in the way the finenoes of the PMA were handled, + 436 «