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C. © RE: = ° e JOHN L, LEIS, ET AL bree bYD Special agents ~ Abe am Gimp tated that in view of the fact he as a meat qgeal of Giiriculty J. in speawing the English lanzua.e, he nad never paid much attention to Union _ activitics at the mine, WH 2:2<<2 aiso thet his memory is viguco as to the chronological order of events that took place in 1937. t is believed thet BF ov only make a fair witness. There is bein: set fortn blow the signed st.tumer.t executed by SA 2. tie time of this intervien: mika the folioviing voluntary Statement to soth of vhom hove identificd themsclves es Speerel gents of the oPaa sau of Investigetion. No threats havc been made to induce me to make a sti.toment. vas born and came to the U. 8. i. ™ Scan "T started work es a Lincr in ¥jjand joined the UN‘) at that timc. I have never held any office in any union. I go tg pout half the union meetin s. I sterted working at Mine > in March of when I Btarted work at Mine 5 I was alread: a member of the Pi . union. "T romembcor that our contract with the Kine expired on March 31, our union was trying to get a new contract with b.tter waz 8. wae: us to go ahead and work and when the contract was sijned would géc to it thet we would pct back pay. we workud ebout a month and still we didn't get an, beck pu; anJj we didn't know whet the terms of the new contract were to be, , tt about this seme tim. I heard that some of the Froercssive men were tryin, to organize for the U.I.. These men were telling us that Frozressive wouldn't be able to get us a yood contract. I remembc was one of the men who was t.lking about the contract. I never hea that ay of these men were cver expelled from thc union, TI did not attund a Vet also al behe amian meee eee tte aha to any mecting When the mon were Kicked out of the union. i - & ih a