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em ay ee a, C O Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL. s interviewed at his residence, by Special on September ime WITH 8 1s, 1943, with the assistance of his wife as he does not understand the English language very well, She advised that he has never been arrested. It is felt he woulc make a poor witness. He furnished the following Signed statement, aa nefield, Thi. Ll give the following information to who have identified themselves as _ ‘being special agents of the F,3.I1, I have had elp me as I don't understard the “nglishn language very well have to say will be the truth to the best of my knowledge, I was bom & came to U, 8, din ee I became a Cltizeri@myears ago. | nave been at Line years & am still thére as e cizger. In 1932 I just folteren the rest over to P.Mw4. & I did not care what mion was there as both were the same to me and I did not prefer one over the other, JI saw in the paper that “lLshoff bot Mine 4 and I was not interested in it at all then as i didn't care who owned it. I had mo complaints against P.M.A, as far as I was concerned. My wife says that two men came to my home but I wasn't home & they wanted me to join up with ULE, so that Elshoff woflld open up Hinc A but they never came back to see m. The men at iine A all talked arowmd that if they wouldn't join up with U.M.o. olshoff would not open up Iine 4 & I believed it but not for sure and that was why I later joined U,M,w, I never went to any of the meetings at F.M,A, Hall, fedman Hall, biks Club and I aia aka: x do 17 o are, ‘ never was told about them & I don't understand good anyway if I did go. I signed up at the meeting in the U.L.W, Hall. It was the first meeting of the new U.M.#, local as they had turned over by then & this was before Mine a opened, I never voted & had to sign up in order to go back to rork as the local had changed from P.M.A. to U.Ma, Since U,L.#,. has been at Liine 4 things are just the same for me as they were under r,I,A. and it still doesn't mike any difference to me what local is there. I have had Agent read this two (2) page statement to me and it is true and correct, Signet SY "Witnesses s PP} Springfield, Ili. Sept. 15, 1943" ¥