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, a . 2 was interviewed at his resi ak. wt 26, 1943 by Special — a is years of age, ha 7 He came to the U. S. in 3 Springficid, Tilinois. Hea o ‘Speabe asc Cc understa..ds English with diffi- Tt is felt, he wanla makn ‘An ouneati a. ae OO eK Springfield, [i’.inois, NS eultsy and hee + ,a Cau GG tae al factory; Witness. nis no tcleuphone rosides ab S employed at a "Springfield, Tl, august 26, 1943 following voluntery sLatenent — To kmow to be Special » gunts of the it without fear of threat, force or proms. of . aiy y kind. wT or years of age, bor: in Tr. I start.d work in the mincs in Tllinois at which timc I joined the United “ine Workers Union, I first started ork in anc FB" an Springfielc, in the fall of abow or at least ; Before 1932 I never had any trouble with Elshoff or. and I don't know of any onc who hao treubic with then. in A992 the majority of the men mot "Between 1032 and 1937 no one cver tricd to get me to join the U-M., and the company never tricd to get me to join“the U Bw. . "I don't remember going tu a mecting of the P Xa on May 11, 1937, and I don't remcuber when we. wont on strike in 1937 except that later that year Wo couldn't get to work unless we were U UW. "But while we wore on strike neithcr the DU Ww, the P Ma or any one tricd to git me tu sign anything that I can rencaober, . Mihon wo wert out on strike, a ? Ma committcesan, whose name I cannot remember, told us this comattee uid a meeting with Lhe company and ths cenpany said we could noe work unless wo jvined J Md. ®In Sept:mber of 1937 IT went on apyket line, or sit dom strike at Minc "BY for about 56 days. Only the ? Ma picket.d and we didn't get in . anyone else tu helo picket. Just be fure Thanksgiving 1937, a United States Lo Marshall told us we would ave to leave, so w loft, eee ee Ce et ee ee er ha ee a