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Federal Bureau of Investigation Anited States Department of Justic 4 tan TE SABLA FD % | DME 2//e_ BYeiat, Director, FSI AIR WALL SPECIAL DELIVERY E Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, & CIVIL RIGHTS AND DOMESTIC VIOLENTF Dear Sirs lo The following information is being eubmitted pursuant to 7G instructions of Vi of the Bureau. oe The following information obtained in investigation of this case indicates that persons interviewed have been advised to guard their statements to Bureau Agents on the following occasions. On the morning of Sepfenber 4, 1943, ANTHONY JdPLoTCH, ra) WANIAS, JP., and JOSE LBANESE, went to t ‘fice of the United Mine VYiorkers an a conversation with RA MUNDSON, who called Attorney ART “ITZGEPALD, who then came to the office and advised these men not to make any statements to agents of the Bureau unless he was present. nn” during Labor Day, September 6, 1943, = be De 7 was approached on the street in Springfield gi.ven a typerrs teen note by a person whose name he did not_k but whom he knew to be employed a#Ziline 8. This person +o that if he was approached by Bureau Agents, to tell them nothing and tell them to see Attorney FITZGERALD, This note contained FITZ- QO. GEFALDis name and address. On the morning of September 7, 1943, a meeting was held the shaft at Mine B, and a lawyer, whose identity is not now know, reportedly made a stun speech and advised men not to talk to the FBI representatives when they called. A different interpretation of H this statement was that the Attorney advised that they di need to talk te the FSI nts if they didn't want to. CHARLY OMAN NOK and LEE OVEEATCULGE UMGARNER were at the shaft and ¢ dently at this impromptu me€ings pico & INVEXOD (S474 6 57-35 | 7 COPIES PFSTROYED In the afternoonof September 7, 1943, at the e erie the ' Pay] tee. 4 goes BAUMGARKER and BOHANNON wore at the shaft et{tine A and RE ICTORY Rost y ve BUY \ bIC ” bic