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Ee RE: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL bIC Lap INTs ty wiTH . wag interviewed by Special Agents understand English well, an > anterview was con-= ducted with difficulty. He appears friendly and cooperative, but due to his poor understanding of English, together’ with anaarenangd it is not felt that he would make a satisfact BLatemen, which was secured from him is set forth es follows 9-6-45 bi mexe the following voluntary statement toe both of whom have identified themselves as being Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. No threats or promises have been made to induce me to make a statement. "I was born in and cette to the U.8. in ¥. I presently reside a and htwe been a U.S. ie: long time. I am presently employed at Mine £. 7 atarted mining in and joined the U.M.i. in that year, I have never held any office in any unioa, or GSSs 2he W ra oe a+ aes 20 at Fg OP as eS ad "I was working at Perther Ureek #l in ifeoe when A jo the Progressives. ; started working at Mine B in about 1955 and was © working there at the time of the strike in 1937. In the Spring of 1937 I recall that the unian contract with the company had expired & the union was trying to get a new costract. I also recall that at about this same time some mon wers trying to orgenize for United. I know that everyone seemed to be satisfied with Progressive cucept for about 14 men who were trying to org- anize for United. us far as I kmowevcryone was satisfied at the mine ex- cept chose men. Some of the men who were trying to organize were Tony Plotch, Bohannon, Albanese, Pasquale, Andy and others, I remember that these men were trying to tell the other men to join up with United. I al- ways told these men that 1 would sign up with United when the rest did. I said if everybody joined I would. I believe Tony Plotch asked me to join Umited before the strika. ! "I went to work as usual in box Q~ the day of the strike and I remember that there was some argument as to whether the Progressive men were going to let those United mon work. There wore some men in the company office and they said they didn't want the men to work, te all started on our jobs & lot of the men loaded short cars, but I loaded my cars as usual. “As I remember it we worked until about 2 O'clock in the after- noon when we were told to come out of the mine. At about that time I saw some of the cars that were loaded short. ‘chen I came on top I was told PTS AAD ea AT ATT Eta Se ees oe Ca ace