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ft an Bc aoocarod "to be "wi Ling in the signed statement a + eS 2 fh wee eel be 446 ai wy eA of gvuvu wa retort] s to cooperate and ¢ a forth telow, T Bel 2UPlii Velo 4 "Springfield, Illinois August 26, 1948 "Ty Springficld, ] 'S§ pake th ‘volun po a ee - thom IT kmow to be § Hircac of ‘Inwetle ——e S. Department of Justioe, No threats or promises of any kind have boen made to me and I have been advised this statement could be used in court, "I was torr. * *I joined a miners union the firat time abo: Springfield, Illinois and went to work at Hine "RB" as s momba Frogressive lino ‘orkors_of America which will bo referred to horeinaftor as PMY. Tho United Mine Workcrs of America will be referred to hereinafter as UMW. Tho PHO is the only mine union I have ver boon a mombor of was 4 member of F467 from approximately os to oo of which timc I vorkod at Mine "B" near Spr Sas ata lle eid any offices in the union at any timo, : at - "At the time I worked at Mino B, the Operative of this mine, Mr. Elshoff, appoared to show favoritism to those miners who vere in synpathy tovard the UMD. At this time, I bclicve thore wore about 100 men working at Mine B vho had Pir cards, but who viero still sympathctio toward the UMW. In this connection, it had alwsys beon my opinion that Elsboff wanted the UN, in his mine. The Pa™ mon did not appear to get along as well with him 2% as somo of the UMi sympathizers. I cun produce no evidence that this was ¥ truc, but it socemed to be the opinion of most of the other minors at this , time. ; £ . a . ; Ps "Y rocall that in 1935 Elshoff rofused to take out PMW dues tron ; a the miner's wages. There appeared to be no reason to believe that Pi miners ; felt that they were being cheated by their officials, I am satisfied that _ ducs taken from me wore properly used, tnd that thore was no kickback toe