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* r vo Fe e . aa a Fe & pia B. a INTERVIEN ITH i Rs pringfield, Illino on the afternoon o ’ » by Special Agents and f u WE He is extremely difficult to understand due to a very hea accent. @ give information set forth in the following stetements RE: JOHN L. LEsIS, ET AL as interviewed eat his residence "Springfield, T1l. September 16, 1945. , ureau of Investigation. No promiese, threats y kind has been made to me to have me meke this state- "My name teccercesseccw’ I wes born in I an now employec at Mine A. I make the following statement to who hnve identified thenselves to me to e soecitl Agen or consider:ticn of an ment. "I have worked et Mine A for about years. et the time th t “yen sold the mine to Elshoff. Before been no talk about changing unions for Mine A. I had not heard eny talk. It did not mike any difference to me which union the men belonged to. I did not cere myself, just eo I could work. J do not know why the men changed except thet while Ryan had run tho mine it hed been closed down a large pert of every year. Elshoff wes going to run the mine longer, and he wanted us to join the Use. That is my understanding, I did not care. I did not go to the meetings where they talked about changing unions. I did not go to the meeting when they voted to join the UMs. I joined the Usiv when I went back to work, because they would not let me work unless I did. I did not care which union I belonges WilLLOGEh Ulis tt & YE eR to. Conditins were as good then as they are now. It does not make much aif- ference which union I belong to. | memrrarresacrsalill roud the above statement on this page end it iwcll trué and accurate. /:/ Zaz, I was enuployed there thet there had 2 nat tine ther FBI F.B.I." - 560 -