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‘ | ~*~ | o RE: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET AL IPTERVIE.. “ITH was interviewed at his residence, J Soringfield, ILlinois, on the afternoon o 942 Special Agents and epenks Ex.glish so pocr1y it appearca chnt he not understznd questions asked him, ard his answere could not be usters* ood. Due to this, no statement was taken. He tried te explain to intervicwi.z fgerats why it wie thet he had joined the UMV when he was a strong Progressive, He assured that he would rather be a member of the Pro- gressive Mine “orkers. He was born j He is not e citizen of the United States is employed at Mine A. SROKA EEE as interviewed at his residence Springfield, Illinois, jal Agerts person having an apparcut blugence above wis extremely uncooperstive ducing the entire interview. His answer to all questions wis that ne hed mo comment. He stated that he had no interest in unions, never went to any of the meetings, and did nct care which union he belonged to. He claimed to hr ve been out of the city at the time of the meeting when the wte was trken tc go to the UMY and he did not attend any of the other meetings. When asked if he w.s setisfied with the union as it wis before Rysn sold Mine "A", he would only say that he had no comment. He suid there had been no discussion of changing unions when the mine had closed in Merch. ~ He wes questioned regerding whether he had been contacted in ref- erence to the investig.tion, and stcted thet he had not. However, upon the Agents resching for a typewriter preparatory to prepering a centenary . os --: that he woulé sign nothing. hen Agents edvised him t e woulc not have to sign cnything but that they wanted to write the statement so that he could look at it, he seid that it would be useless as he would not read it. Beccuse of this nc st-.tement was prepared. Original notos made by interviewing agents following the above interview are being reteined in the files of the Springfield Field Division. was born is employed at Mine A. - 53] -