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7 Re: JOEM L, LEWIS, ET AL ee resides iy . inois, was intervicwed on_the afternoon Special Axents <—ain sould make an avar’7e ant Oyc to ° > express himself and an inteslisence which cxecuds thot “of the averartc miner. Ic refusec to execute the foliowing gstotoment but assuree that it was true: “Sprinzficld, T1l September 14, 1943. I make pers havc ° taentific’ l eo Oe } yp = ig o i i=) a a) sar oe ee ans ~ miue to me, tc 7 "TI have work 2 at Mine A for about o- I was employed at r 2 Dishoff. Befrre the Kine A in 1941 when Ryan sole out his interes anncuncement of that I hac heard n> ciscussion about chanzins unions. There was @ 1-t of confusion anc some diastisfaction with the Eroercaesives. There yas n. talk btefere thit, however, Glout chansins unicns. "I wont t) ome meetin= at the Irosreesive Tiall, when they were éiscussint what they shvuld do about unions, and the chanze of ownership of Mine A. That nicht, no one know what thcy wanted to do, It was nll confused. I th-u-ht that they dic net know what they werc zoinz to do, $9 I dic not bother to so to any other mectines. I decidec I would do whatever the majority “ic. I did at cs to the meeting at the Elks's when they voted to “9 to theo IMG. I signed ap later. "l did not care particularly which union I belonged to then. 1 was satisfied with tho way things wore then, and I an satisficd now. "y have read tho abeve statement on this pazc only. It is o11 true and occursate. - 546 «