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bic a =: intcrviewed 4 25 residence, nai 1943, by Spacis and iin |: of age and Uc had great difficulty in speaking and appeared he no longer likes U3’ and thot he personally dislikes John L. Lewis because Lewis deals with the operators and forgets the miners, The following signed statement was obtained from , "Springficld, Ill. Sept. 23, 1943 " I, the folloving voluntary statement whom I knov to be Special Agents of the I mike it without fear of threat, force or promise of any kind. EE ————— ll "I vas born in came to the DU. S. in Gy and became a U. S$. citizen in "rl startod vorking in mine "B", Springfield, in wa and was a nember of the United “ins Tlorkers Union. In May of 1937 Mine “"B™ closed, anc I never got any notice to come back to work-- and never was notified to come back in 1939, "I was never forced or threatened in any way by anyone from UM or FuA. ee *Tust before the line “B"™ closed in May, 1937, there were about twenty or tuenty five men in PHA who were really working for UMN. I do not remember whether these men were expclled from PKA but the reason I heard the mine closed was becaus2 the company did not want to do business with PUA but wanted to work with UMW. I heard these ‘spies’ tere paid 235,00 a week by UMV while they vere members of PMA and vvorking in Hine “B*. All this was comnon talk but I cannot state where I got this information. ~168-