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Re: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET AL his home at 1 Age was interviewed a field, Illinois, by Speci _ see bve of ak English very well, although hake a food witeened 2 iv re He has no known criminal record. he anresrs inte] ligently alert, Bupplied the following signed statement: "Springfield, Til September 4, 1943 7 “7 = +» who are Special Agents of the g promises of any kind have been made to get me to make a statement and I do so knowing it may be used in a court of law. "I began working in coal mines ir YS in about § and first joined a union at that time. I joined U.M.W. "I first worked at Mine "3" about and then I worked in several other mines and came back to Mine "BY" about "I think the miners and the management got along o.k. before the r.M.A. was formed. In 1932 I joined P.M.A. because there was a condition existing within the U.LLW. that the miners did not like. ™“e had no voice in the election of officials and we had to do as the union officials said so my local quit U .M.W. and joined P.U.A. I have never been a official ~ of any union. "I liked P.M.A. at that time and I thought the miners were about 50% better off under P.J4.A. than U.1.°. As far as I know there was no cifficulty with P.M.A. and the mine owners until just be‘ore the strike at Mine "B" in 1937. * "TI did not see any spies at Mine "B" before the strike and no one ~ attempted to get me to change from P.M.A. to U.M.W. at this time. I heard a day or so before the strike that 2 or 3 men had been expelled from P.M.A. for spying activities, ~ 54 =