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ay i ia EE RE aes oe Re: JOHN L, LEWIS, ET AL. "I went to the Elks Club meeting I dont remember how I knew about it but + wernt_ “I dont | know who was in charge. As I remember we just went to this meeting + to go back to U.K.w, I think we voted to go back to U.M.W. at one of the other meetings, 1 believe the one at Redmans. "Edmundson talked at the lks meeting telling us he was glad we were back in U.M.a. and that we were going to be treated well. I signed up for U,.v, that afternoon at the Elks, we were all signing up together. "I voted to go over to U.LLW. because I needed my job and there was no other way at the time. Jobs were hard to get in those days and we knew that if we wanted our jobs we had to go back to U.N.W, I did not eo to Elshoffs or Zdmundsons office or to the Leland Hotel after the 4lks Club meeting. "Now under the U.M.W. the conditions in the mine are just the same as they were uncer the P,M.*. but in the local it is different. They pay no attention toa jue a dicpor, just a few rum the whole thing, this is ayfferent from P.EVA "I have had Agent GB vee this statement written on this ard two other pages to me. It is all true to the best of my knowledge and belief. JI am signing this of my om free will as it is true. “nitness: (ae peclai agent, F.B.1., St. a, kinn. pecial Agent rol (Milw.} Springfield, Ill. Sept. 16, 1943" j }