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he r Li 4 & Bs ; 1 RE: JOHN L. LEIS, ET aL at which timc he ... and had been a D. 8, ao with the aid of his dauzhter, : ad difficulty undcrstonding questions put to him, eve. in his native Tonue, and so for thet recson it is bclieved he would mike « vur poor witness. He also stated he did not want to gt involved in any le.zl proceedings, exccuted th. follomin,; statement which he si.med with "august 26, 1943 Springfield, Tllinois meke the following voluntery stetenent to oo ; both of whom nave identified thcmsclvis as bo Secial acents of the Federal Bur.:cu of Investigation. No threats or promises have been made to ue and I aereby wake this statement of ny own free will. "I started working at mine n and havc worked there eves since. at the present tine I @ muber of the U. %, Ww. In 19321 joined the P. MN. A. and was a member of tht group in 1937 whon our nen decided to strike bscause we noard that some of our mon were working for the U. HM. W. group and not our union. Sone of these. men wer: DoninickAFasquele, Frank Austin, Pete Cartzr, Jin Hale, Charlig ohannon. we didn't want to work wittthesefen bocaus3 we7Knew they ‘Uroudte makers and wo told the compan we wouldn't work if those mon vere allowsd to work. I do rumeaber that the wen vere t-lking alfout the baek wages whieh they thought they had comin: to them under a new agrocment whien the conppeny was suspoescd to have simmed with the union. It is uy b_lief thet the men Font on strike in May of 1937 due to the fact they objected to certein men, The strike was not over money to the best of m recollection. "T hive never held an office in the union and ave not taken port in any union activities. Sometime in 1337, and beforc the strike in bay, j was approached many, tines by andy Schreleviais, and andy tried to got ms to join the U. Me ¥. Finally I got mad at hin and chased him out of the mine with my piek, After that I wasn't bothered by Andy. "T remenbor that one day in Ma; ‘of 1337 when we came to the surfsce from the pits, we were told by the cageor tht the plant or mine was on siri.-