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x . . ,* wee ae : n D onage . . gue i Q ig caer 2 sat Bee me ata at or lat he ree all Sf nantes Fa C Re: -JOHN L. LEVIS, ET AL ae UINTRRVIE.! WITH Springfield, Ill., was inter- SS viewed at nis hone by Spocia sero: and “ hemrmemcersarcreeert He was cooperative S not be- lieved he will nakc < goad witness Inasmuch es he has difficult. specicing and underst .ndin,z English. He is a naturalized U, &. Citizen with irth. EK: hes no known cri:inai record and he supplied the following sisned statewent. *Springficld, Til. Septenbur 12, 1943 , make the following voluntary stcat:- ment to who have identified thcnselvcs to uo 66 Ofceelal apvents of the Feaerai Bur cu of Investigatior.. No threats or promises of any kind have been made to get me to nake a st tenent and I do so knowing it uay bo used in a court of law. ; "I was born ay I cane to Anerica in yyy I becamc @ naturclized ciiizen of U. o, reuson of oy futher obtuining his citizenship in U. S. I served in the U. &. army during “orld war #1. "I bevan workin in corl mincs whon I was @:::. old and at Danson Tll. J joined U.M.ii. at that time. I started working at Mine "B" abmt or I know of no trouble at Mine "BY until PMA. was forned in 1932, I chingcd fron UM... to Pela. in 1932 because the whole local to which I belonved chanjed to F,Moa. and P.M.a. had the contract with Mine "BY, P.Mva. scuned to uct alony as well at Mince "B" as U.M.W,. did and there was no trouble up until the time of the strike in 1937. Therc was very little difference in U.N... and P,Eaa. that I couid see during that tine. RIm sprin, of 1937 I remeuber the mine went on strike aml I was drivin cntry. The men all wolked out becausc PA. and Blshoff could not grec on the wave seule ond b..cnuse Elshoff and Falsetti refused to fire souc micn who had been expelle:! fron P,iwa. but I don't kn ma why they were expelled. I did not attend any ucctinys when they werc expelled, "Tl simed a petition for P.M.i.. shortly aftcr the nine shut down to show that FP... had a najority of the workers at the nine. tibout a week after the mine "B" shut down I got a job at Old West mine ani worked there until Mine *B" reopencd. I pot a transfer to the P,M,4. local at Old Viest at thet tine. IT did not picket at Mine "B" because I was workiny at Old West. MI voted in the W.L.R.B. election in Dec. 1937 which P.M... won by a lar-e majority. This was a fair and square election as far as I know, - 21 «=