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RE: JOAN L. LEVIS, ET AL. INTERVIEY WiTH Tliinois, a hane by Special agents ae: < English with dif fairly welle Throughout the intervi tated that he has always oonsidered the U.M."Te to be a better union than the P.MeA.s He claimed to “ no criminal records Following is a signed statement obtained from "Springfield, Ill. September 5, 1945« "I, ak; the following voluntary statement to ae: whan I know to be Speciel Agents of tne Federal Bureau o vestigation, of my own free will, with no threats or pranises made to mos "I live at field, Ill., and work at Mine Be. IJ wag born , and cime to the United States in I was neturajized in Springfield in I joined the United Mine Workers in t Auburn, Ill, und remained a member until 1932, when I joined the Progressive Mine Workers of Amerio&. In 1941 I rejoined the U.M.'l- I begin work ut Mine Beround 1926.6 I have never been an officer in any union. In 1932, I beoune a member of the PMA, when the miners split up with U-M.y. I took no part in re- organizing the P.M.A., and don't kmow the reoson it startede I always have liked the U.MelJ. better than the P.N.A., becouse I feel we hed bet~ ter conditions under that unione I went to some of the Pidied. meetings, mostly because we were fined 50¢ if we didn't go« — "T dont remember any P.MeAe meeting on the night before the strike. On the dy of the atrike, some of the men were louding their cars short, however, I loaded mine full. "around quitting time ae: me the mine wos shut- ting down, I don't know why the strike was culled, and don't even remem- ver hearing any reasons for the strike. I don't remember signing eny petitions in 1937. "In September of 1937 & pioket line was thrown around the mine. I didn't want to go out to pioket the mine, beoause I wes sick, but the P.MeA. offioiols made mo gow I wos on the pioket line for two days. We were picketing to keep the U.M.We men fran working in the mines All the men in the picket line were from Mine Ba When the compeny got the injunction to get the men off the premises, zw: the men to get off the propertye . by ST et le TL eT RN 4 TYPE MYT acto De TAT Com Te -