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Re: JOU L. LETIS, ET AL. eee hint Trsnons was Jointly interviewed at his residence on eas aber 11 cial arents cserseae-uieens cen $ little : the matter under inquiry. He join in order to retain his job at the mine. He was hesitant to talk to Agents as he stated he had been ad=- wee neressary for hin to have a counsel before talking to govern= vised it Was necessary 20 Aim FO fave a eviaseen Melee ment investigators. He executed the following statement, "Springfield, Tllinois September ll, 1943 "yt following voluntary statement to an whom I know to be Special Agents mn of the eral Bureau o: Investigation, U. S Department of Justice. entered the Unj was natur wiieid, Jilinois in "The first mine union I joined was the United Wine Yorkers of ments Da ans ae ¢hea the TT Gtrninad thte amian asahont Heo ica hereinafter referred to ao Lili ti. ai GINS bilo Ui ae st the Peabody Mine #6 near Springfield, Ill. I worked at six rones before 1932 when I started working at mine B under the Progressive Hine “orkers of America which will be referred to hereinafter as the Pra. I joined the Ptg.in 1933, voluntarily. I liked the PMA and the PHA leaders. ~ The miners felt they were being treated fairly by the Pu, NT F, States in en aa "T have worked at Line B as a dig-ter continuously from 1933 wntil the present time except during the strike period from 1937 to 1939, "I have never held a wion office, T t only attended a faw Ura and Pil. meetings. I do not attend many UST meetings now. "Elshoff got along wellwith the Pt. as far as I know to 1937, "I know the following miners; Joe jlbanese, Andrew Schrelevious, Dominic Pasquale, Pete Cartcr, Frank austin, Tony Plotch, John (Cotton) fnanias, Charles Bohannon and James Hale, "JT was satisfied with the PL. dues and assessments and I never complained because of dues taken from my wages by the PU. “In November, 1939, after the strike, I went back to work at Mine B, and two or three nonths later Joe ilbanese of the Uf? Pit Conmittee came up to ne and asked nc to join the INT, I refused, but the next day I talked to other miners and obscrved that nost of them had joined and I knew I would have to join or get out of the mine. Tt was my idea that if I did not join-the UMT I would not be able to work there, Re at a le : Lette, Pa ee =