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Re: JOHN L. LUIS, T AL. iia <p — vas a —_ residence on September 12, 1943, by Special Agents ecmctenererd : Sy understands and speaks Fngiisn suificiently well to tostiiy, bu ; Clan be unable to read Mmglish. He exhibited a lack of interest an union activitics. said he has never been ar= rested. te executed the following statement. INTEAWIS * ITH "Springfield, ll. September 12, 1943 make the folloving voluntary statement vhon I kno! to be Special arcnts 9° e Feder urcau of tvestigation, of my orn free rill, vith no threats or promiscs made to me. "J an living at am torking at line b. Jas and cane to the United States in T J joined the D.M.7.. in Springfield, in joined the P.M. A. at Mine B, and rejoined the UI! . at ane B in June, 1940. ®hon the ?.}.4. begpan in 1932, Iient along vith the men, The union vag all right, treated us as best they could, and I tas satis- fied vith it. I didn't go to very many meetings, because I don't un~ derstand very yell, but everyone at the meetings had a chance to get up and say that they pleased, 4s far as I Imor, the union got alone OK Fith the management, I don't remember any P.M.J. meeting the night before the strike, and probably didn't po, because I had been sick and didn't go out much, - On the day of the strike, I ¥ orked all day long. Then I cane up from vork, all the miners said there rouldn't be any vork the noxt dey. I don 't knov the exact reason for the strike, but I heard that the minc managenent wanted the U.}i.t:;, and not the P.M. fF don't renenber signing any petition or paper for the P.i.Ae,y or any other wiion, that summer, No one asked ne to join the U.1L%. that summer, We gy tn ee tT don't ronember hor I heard that the mine Tas going to open up in Septunber, 1937. I didn't go out the first day, but the second, rhen Tvent out, all the men vere there ready to go to vork., There vere a bunch of U.I.". men there too, We didn't go dorm into the nine. I don't Imor the reason for this, I ‘as on the picket, ent out by mysulf no one forced me to. Ztas on the picket line to protect my job against men tho might be brought in to tork the mine, "In the clection of December, 1937, I vas told by the P.ti.i.. union that the votc tas to be in the armory. ‘The union officers didn't tell us - 152 -