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Re; JOBN L. LEWIS, ST aL. 2 inois, was in- y. “VO INTERVIEW} v terviewed in sotomber 9, ’ Special agents and This man cannot speak English we understood and he does not understand Inglish well enough to converse_in it. Information was obtained from bi ; the interview, through who acted as interpreter claimed to have no interes in union activities. He said he has never been arrested. The following Signed statement was obtained fro Wart 9 a — Til. eptember 9, 1943 "I, make the following statement freely and voluntarily TT °° have identified themsclves to me peciai agcnts o ¢ Federal Bureau of Investigation. No threats or promises have been made to me to obtain this statement. "J prescntly live in a loved at the Denkcrt mine. I was born in In I came to the_[fiited otates, u became a citi the United States in at Springfield, Ill. "J first joined a mine wmion, the United Mine tiorkers, in Ga when J was Working in the Il... mine. I stayed in this union witil I joined the PROpressive line ~orkers of »mrica in 1932 when I was working in the mine. J had no part in the organization of the P.Ma. I startcd to work at line B. I never was an officer in any wnion. "In 1934 when I started at inc B, there was no trouble at Minc B, the trouble started in line B in 1937, =t that time some men were trying to pull some of the mincrs away from P.M.a. Some of thesc men were: Bowling Green (Charlie Bohannon), Dominic Pasquale, andy (Skrelevicus), Tony Plotch, Pete Carter, Frank Austin, and Bmory Jacaway, fhesc men were talking to some of the mincrs, but they never talked to mc at any time. "I don't know why the strike started, but I think that the activities of the men named above had something to do with it. I don't remember if I signed a petition for P.M. 4. in 1937. No ‘ onc asked me to join the U.M.7i, in the sumer of 1937. h AJ went on the picket linc in 1937 of my own accord because the whole local of the P.M... went to the picket line. JI think that the mon were picketing to keep the U.M.W. men out of Mine B. I don't kmow anything about the injumction that stopped the strike picket. a _s- ;