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Re: JOHN L, LEVIS, ET AL Leieeniahties WITE "In the fall of 1937 I was in the picket line at Mine B. Only tine B were there. The purpose of the picket line (contrmicee was to keep U.M.7;. men from working in Mine B. "I voted in the election in Decembor 1937 at the State Armory. The PKA, officials told me about the election but they did not tell me how to vote. I voted for the P.M.A. because J was a member of that union, and tceause most of the miners seemed to want that union in Mine B. "Before I went back to work after the mine reopened in 1959, no on. tried to get me to join the U.M.%. After I had started back to work Bohannon came to my house one night with Frank Austin. They said that I had beter sign up with U.M.N, because I could not win staying with P.M.A. I told Bohannon thet I would think it over. They did not threaten me or say that I would lose my job. "An air inspector, bore Also talked to me about U.M.%. Ts came to my room in “ine B. 3 told me that I had a good room, and that I better join U.u.7. if I wanted to koep that room. I told him that I would join U.M.1. when most of the minors did. He told mo to come to a U.M.N. meeting. I went to the meeting, and sow a great many miners joining U.M.™. s0 1 joincd U.N. too. I did this to stick with the majority of the mincrs. I knev' that I would have to sign up with U,¢. J. to keep my job at Mine B. I kmev IT could not get a job anyvhere else. *I dontt romomber signing any petition for F.!.A. or any othor union. Y heard that some mincrs vere beat up, and I saw two men who had been beaten, but I don't kmow their namcs, Later ata nooting of the UM... union, on Italian fellow tricd to say something at the meeting. Cudgc Baumgarner told him to sit down, Aftcr the meeting in an alley I saw Cudge beat this Italian fellow, I don't know his nome. "In the election in 1941, when the U.M.%. won, I voted for the U.M.W. | Wo one made me votc. I voted for U.M.%. because most of the mincrs, 60 Tf thought, were members of the U.M,'., anc so was I, "I quit working at iiine B in March 1943 because I w rooms and could not moke any money, and also bechuse 1 wanto of the minc because my health was going bad. "This statement consisting of this and two other typewritten pages has been read to me and I state that it is truce to the best of my knowledge and rceeollection, ’ SEES 2602) " jtnesses: (signed) (signed) “Speciol Agents, FBI " s * Springfield, Ill. ~ 164 - ee ta, Se ce ad on Cie a ai aS Tr peeing gee ATE jot eT