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RE: JOHN L. LETIS, ET AL LIC BID INTERVIET WITH The following investigation we uated b : at WEP tliinots on 9-53-45. At his residence am erecta and he aovrsen fe nas never been arrested in his * B nO he had great difficulty in wderstanding the questions and he spesks English very poorly end is of extremely low mentality. It is believed that he would make & very poor witness wmless his testimony were absolutely necessary. Agents obtained the following signed statenent fram hims sept 3, 1943 Til. bd "I hereby give the following statenent to snd who are known to me to be spece &etse of the reBele No threats cr pramises have been made me te procure this statement. I was pame to the U.8Ss about ing for the las a at ais field, Ill. I have not been w I first joined a wiion over yeurs fgoe I have never been @ union officers ‘when I first went to Mine "3" there was 4 U.M.{l. union there I dont remember how lone ugo thet wus. I worked there up until Christmas time cbout men I first went to work at Mine "B" the U.i.l7. union thoy had there was alright so far as I kmowe I dont know anything about the re- lation between this wmion und Mrs ELSHOFF or FALSETTI. 1@ & C1ltTizen © *T joined the P.M-Ae union when they % the union there and you hed to belong to keep your jobe I took no rt in forming this union. aring most of the time we had « Progressive Union at Mine "3" everything was alright as I renembere I heard something about Mrs ELSHOFF wenting to change fran P.M. buck to U.M.We but I mew nothing of this myself. So far as I know Mrs FaLSErti or Mr. ELSHOFF nover said anything to discredit the P.M.A. leaders. While we had the Pro- gressive Union everything wes alright. I did not kmow anything about any trouble between the P.M. members and their leaderse The P Mate was & good union and fed lots of poor minerse I know nothing about the finances of the Progressives, I wont down to meetings lots of times but didnt attend regular because it wus too fur fram here. When there wes any question ts to what the union should do it was voted on our leaders dij not rell us what to doe "