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Re: JOH) L. uwIS, ET AL laa / INTERVIEN, NTH was interviewed at his home by hee can neither read nor write ngiis as a very poor menory not make a satis- factory u.acnesr. he fad led to remember ary details concerning activities e+ Mine BE and the following statement was s:cured from him: = Tllinsis, September 2, 1943. y mane the mot + . who have identifiec themselve to me as bling opecia. sgents in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 0 threats or promi 33 have been rede to mo to got me to mako a statement. I resico «i ae Te "] was born i> and came to the U. 5. in Tam an Am.rican ci coal mining in about joined the United Mine workers av that time. I heve never held an offic any union. "T went to work af Mine BP about 1935, as near as I can recall, I was working therc on the day cf the sgrike. I con't know anything about the strike, I was working in B. Xe at the time it a long t Li I dontt remember. ’ NafSor the strike I signed a petition at the Jnion Hall in prinsficld. I was at tue mines on the picket line, three, four months. ail the other fellows wore thore.” I went to show I was a good member of Frogrissive, someone tolc me to £56 "The above is oli I knew about the trouble, (signed) T-itnessed: : - "yr rote: AG Nt contents Ww ; (signed) — signec) Worueral digents, F.E.I. "U. S. Dept. of Justice bove road t: wand he advised are true." ) ) ) ) ~ 353 = followin: signed voluntary state- 5 o and e in and