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Sabagt Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET al. Vion WITH "In the election in December in the State Lymory I voted for the P.M.a. because I wanted to. {Sontinued} No onc forced me to vote for that wnion. i "From that time until the mine reopened in 1939 no one talked to nc about joining the U.H.w. I received a letter from the mine company telling mc that the mine was going to reopen, and that I could com back 4 to work, I went back about two days after I received my notice. "Shortly before IJ quit working at lfine B, some started to talk to me about joining U.M.#. I don't know their names. They talked to me in my room at the mine. They did not threaten me, and mercly asked me to join the U.M.". However, these men did say that there would be | trouble at Minc B if the mincrs did not join the U.M.«,. Shortly before the 1941 election some person cut up my clothes when they were hanging in the mine wash house. I don't know who did it. Om another day when J tot was in the mine going to my room from the washhouse, I was hit on the head. © I did not sec who hit me because I was hit from the rear. On the last day that I worked at Mine B, J loaded three full cars of coal, but I did not get paid for them. I don't know what happened to my checks. "It mikes no difference to me in which wnion JI am a member. Onc union is as good as another. "This statcmen onsisting of this and one other typewritten t page has been read to be + ee: I state it is true to the best of my recollection, / Gms Witnesses: /s/ , Special agent, PBI, Springfield, Ill. Special wpont F.B.1I., Springfield, Ill." |