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€ Q RE: JOHN L. LU 1S, BT ab , bAD - ; _ Boring Le was interviewed at his home by Special Asents Leer seers vid It is not believed he would make a ,000 Witness due to his inabiiity to speak bn; jish or remember clearly.\ He admits having been arrest:d for being drunk o: two different occasions i i Ke supplied the follovin_ signed statement: i : "Sprinvfield, Ill. : September 3, 1743 following voluntary statenent t- are Special agents of the Federa crowises of any kind nave been made to cet ne to make a statement. WT was bor. : ; Coe ani vecane a WNaturalized Citizen of U. "T jolved UL. 2. Ty, in about Ren Lt bevan workin; at “Sangamon “ine #2, I bevan working in Mine "3" i: I have never been an officer in any union. "T do not know of any difficult: or of U. I. “. being in any trouble of amy kind at Mine 3 before P, 7. A. was formed. "J joined F, M, A. in 1952 because the leaders of my union told me I had to join FP, 2, A. to work. "J wnov of no trounle between Elshoff andr. MN, A. before the strike in 1457, I was working as a digscr at Mine "B" when the strike occurred. I did not see any one trying to organize or change the miners from F, °. 4A. to U MY at that time. I remember the mine closed down in 1937 and the P. , 4 committee told me that it was because twelve men had been working for U. 1. G. and that ve would strike, JI do not recall loacin: any cars short the day of the strike. NSometine in the summer of 1937 aNDRE. SCERLLEVIOUS ana DOMINIC PASWALE came to me at uy house to get me to join U. i VW. but I said no, tT remember pocketing at Mine "B" for 56 days ana nizhts, then the U. S$. Marshal served an injunction on us. "T voted in the MN, L, ®. B, election held in the Arsenal. As far as Ll eceuld see it was a fair election. I kno: P iia won the election. ~ 370 =