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TE TY ad REET I os Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, iT AL. IS TERVIN.? WITH 5 Specia) agents thatg“he ie m% a citizen o vrite Euclisi, and is net even able to write his own pape, He does not urderstanu ki.glish except short, simple words. eee was present during the interview. She rea € stavemen declined to sign : ae... and advised that it eentained everything that ? ith nee ed oro Ow had said in the interview. a mark, but said that everything in the statement is true. enid he has revir been arrested, "Soringfield, Ill. “uplomber LA, 1943. make the fgllowing statement as Special Agents of U who have identif.;d themeclves to me Fedcr:l Surcau of Investization. No threats or promises have been made to me to obtain this statement, : Springficid, "I presently reside at and Iam employed in kine 4, I care to —_ —— a ATER ites citizen. "I joined the United wine workers in and stayed in union mtil 1932 when I joined the Progressive Mine workers the United © that of America. I rejoined the U,k.W. in 1941 when I was working at Wine A. I began to work at dine A in "Tt makes no difference to m? to which union I belong, 1 think that Piva. is as good as U.N, "I saw in the newspaper that kr. Lishoff bought Mine A from Mr, Ryan. "Sefore + went to work in the fall of 1941, the pit committce of P.M.A, told me that I would have to join the U.M.W. before I went back to work at Kire 4, 1 did not know why I had to join the U.K, I heard that *lshoff wanted both Minc A and Mine B to have the same union. "T signcd up with U.Mm. at a mecting on @ Sunday in September 1941 at the “lks Club, At 1 AN on londay morning Lishoff signed a - 518 - r