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Re: JOHNS L. LEvIs, EP AL. ipj interviewed an Gy Speci as ARETLS CaS 4 . | ee his residence aT S Springfield, Illinois, on September 8, 1943. speaks broken English and itis ~~ difficult to follow his conversation. He appears to definite in = nts and would make a willing mtness. eT i <0: facial marks of the beating he re- /V ceived at Mine . INTERVIEW WITH , ee . é furnished the following signed statement. “Springfield, Tilinois September 8, 1943 "I, make the following voluntary statement to and whom I know to be Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice. entered the United was At the pre- ny yas States at naturalized at sent time I live at Springfield, Illinois and I am employed as a miner a line, Springfield Illinois as a member of the Progressive Mine \iorkers of America that will be referred to hereinafter as PMA. "The first mine wnion I joined was the United Mine Workers of America that will be referred to hereinafter as the UMW. I joined this wmion about at a small mine nea Tllinois, I worked at four other mires before I started wor at Mine B in I voluntarily joined PWA in 1930 or 1931. I volun- PMA in September, 1932. tarily joine tl never held a wmiion office at any time. "Before September, 1932 Carl Elshoff got along alright with "= — aa Ula! ThLbnti os Then the PMA first organized in Mine B. Carl Eishoff seemed to get along with the miners, but later he seemed to favor "My job in Mine B was a coal digger. "The PHA leaders were good. All of the miners Liked to work under the PMA. F