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we a Ce er ee ee Re: JOFN L, LEVIS, ET AL interviewed at hie was anvervacwed at oycd os a miner at Mine "B", reac well, Ec, howevcr, un@é¥Stanas Enpiien well, and speaks Enclish well. He is a little slow snd his montality may be somewhat cullicd, He is very definite in the things that he does remember and would be stubborn cnough Aon eanw to withstanc cross-examination. Fe would make a fairly good appearance on the vitnoss stand. It is belicved that he rould make as food a witness as the avcrage miner. Upon intcrvicw he exceutce the following siencd statement: "Sprinefiold, Ill. august 27, 1943, eh acted nane is "iq : I make the following statement anc pe le who have identified themselves oe ae e ° . a ‘= ; - otal to vO Te spccial agents of the Fedcral Burcau of Investigction. No promises. threats, or eonsiceration of any kind has boon made to me to make this state- ments It is true and accuratc, and I am willing, if necessary, to go to court and repeat any rart of this statement, "I have been working in lines A ane EB since = I worked from A over into B, an? havo stayed af Bever sinee. I joinod the United Mine ‘Jorkers, and was ® committee man on this union in — In 1932 I went over with the rest of the m-n at Mino B into the Progressi¥e Mine Corkers of americas. To was not involved in organizing the Progressive Nine sorkers, but Iwas glad to go over into the new union, Aftcr that things went better. Things were better after that. I never was an officer of the Progressive wine «orkers, but I attended meetings about onee a month. About 50 to 100 men attended meetings regularly. On special mcectings a lot more men came to the neetings. "I do n>t rceall any trouble with the unions with Elshoff. I guess he got along alright with both tho UMT and the Per, "I was always satisficd with the Progrcssive Mine “Jorkers. I liked the union. I had no complaints ebout the way Tf wis being run, nor about the cssossments, check offs or anything else, I think most of the men at the mine likod the FLA of execpt about 12 men who wanted to change the mince over to the Unitcod Mine ‘orkers, "I recall tht before the strike in May 1937 therc had been some Rlow ups. I do not know what they weru caused by, unless it was that there was not cnough orders for tho coal, There was no disatisfaction among the Same « 216 « ~ egw te gers I le tl a le alles es a we I WE RL Ca ga ORO tg apie te, cal wer ot ar r —_———— -