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a Ri: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL ya ry INVERVIE.. WITH pe : - - - = aaa i - a \ Springficld, Tilinois on September 7, 1943. At his roegide. nents intervioved Wi He advise e has wever Geen arrests i § Liic. Tt wes noted a: rether hard of hearing and had di*ficulty = aeareu! some of tie questions and he hed to be assisted =—sit- ees in answerin:. Itis ®t thet he Would make a very poor The following iil jae me was “ain a Spoeial am nts and Agoats obtuined from him the folleving simed st:tonents SS ast . Sopt. 7, 1343 PO oe mike this free and voluntary st.utunment ‘as who are known to me to be Special agents o or promis:s have been made me to give this statement. tT was bo % came to U. S. in llillibe became a cliizen about Years : Tirst joined U.M... second year I came to ‘: I never have been a union officer. I Ltirst vears azo and worked tell Mine B closed in B oriccd since. I don't know whet kind of = union 44 wes at Mine B befor: P.M... came in as one was sume as other, When P.Ma. enne in at Kine B I wes for them but, did not help organize. as far as I know thinss wont elricht between Elshoff & P.¥.;.. before minc closed but latcr on bishoff Would not firc 4 mon who vere Pi, mon but were for Ul. Fella. wanted to have these men fired but ne wuldnit & that was the reason why there was a strike. There was no trouole about w.iges then and men were gatisfied then about contract and we were told we would gct batk pay. We P.lt.A. gen liked the P.M,a. union & never suspected officials of doing am-thing wrong & there werc not any special or large asscssnents. I did not attend many mectings. Both P.JLi. officials and men ran the union to-ether. J dontt know if those P.M.A, tien were guilty or framed in regard to that bombing leccL UM... men did not picket Mine B before it closed & I don't reeall of getting or sceing any paper. But before they voted at onc time I zot thru tho mail from U.M.7. some literature & others — did too. No one cver asked me to join U.N... First there was 4 men for U.K.u. & thon they wont to six. I believe seme were andy Schrclevious, Frank austin, Tony Flotch, Dominic Fasquale, Chas. Bohannon, he was the lecder of them, Geo. & Emory Jacaway. They never bothered me at all. i U.S. & it wes in started at Line 3 aoout Sorine o: 1937 & T neve. ae a mee H24,3- FN me PE Te STARR I bY r