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Cr al fe er Fr ee ee ee ee en en ee Ah RE eS nS i Ro: JOBN L. LEVIS, ET AL was interviewed near IRTERVIEN WITH _ September 1, 1943, by Special Agents _ na ot which timo he executed a signed statenont. a ' reads and writes English fairly woll. He is cmploye and quit the mines in 1939. He did not take an active part in union activities at any time and, therefore, has knowledge of facts pertinont to this Iinvestigs- tion is moager. It is belioved ho will make only a fair witness due to his lack of portinent information. Fc has boen in 111 hoalth for a number of yoars and has no known criminal record. Tho following is tho signod statement obtained from (ay — as Septembcr 1, 1943 "t make the following voluntary statement to and ho arc Special agents of the Foderal Bureau of nvestigation. §Mo threats or promisos of any kind havo beon mado to get ma to makc a statcment and I kmow it may bo used in a court of law. " OE eee . =. —_— I was born a eR per ee ord I came to U. 5S. in oe and am a citizen of U. S. such citizenship ine been derived throug my parents. J began working in the mino at and joined U.M. a. then in QB I hove novor held any office in any union. "About iii | bogan working at Mine "B" as an entry driver. In 1932 I changed from UM to PL. bocausc the U.N... dues were too high. "as for as I know thc miners and Elshoff got along Ok up until the strike in 1937, Thore wor: no strikes or close-downs during this tine. "I did not hoar of any lebor spios at !‘inc "B" prior to the striko. — "8 far as I could sce therc was no difforence in the wage scale of the tyo unions beforo tho strike in 1937, I did not know of any spies working at iine "B" ond I did not know thst some men wore expelled from Pi... for being spios. I remembor on ths day of the strike my buddy sked me if Hele had seen mo about joining U.M.... I said no and he told me that Eale had asked him why he didn't change over to U.M.h. "J worked a full day at Hino "B" the day of the strike and did not sec any cars loaded short. I did not kmow of tho strike until I went to ‘work the next day and some of the men net me out in the road and told me thot tho mine was on strike, ~ 445 « we