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RE: JOHN L. LE.IS, eT aL INTERVIEN viTk as “4 ois, was inte on wugust 27, 1943 Special .. onts and | cwcad is an "ici fe speaks English &@ strong accent, no 24 aed had V4eel en tufawenti on concerning thie ;| i? | WOrK at Hing 7 ai wor Ney» 135 f SIO MEO 240045 LIOR ba DWV dasa, eee pe - inquiry. He submitted the following written statements ; 1 . "Springfield, Tllinois ‘f* August 27, 1943 ~ make the follsiing voluntary statement to as = whom I know to be Special a ents of the er. nt =f hati an au Wk Gis Vb LG e a et Tnvas Le arrrel O21 anv FoI Be bic parvinee "TJ riside at -fjeld, Tllinois and I am uséently ensloyed ——ae wes born on an not @ eitizen of the of Intention at Sprin field, Iliino’s in papers. I arrived in the United Statues in Sprinvficld, Illinois. "I joined the United Minc VJorkers, hercinafter referrod to as the ° Uf’, in et Sprinzfield, Illinois. ky first job as a miner was: "ad ie at the Fe2bod: . #6, near Sorinzficld. iiuted otates. 1 a claration I nave not received my secon? and cane directly to "Shen I workcd under the Progressive Miners of amcrica, rcforred to hercinafter as the Pilt., 1 was well satisfied. I voluntaril signed the PL. petition on hay 12, 1937. During this poriod, including May 12, 1937, tuclve men vere working in Itin: B, where I then worked, as members of the fil., but 1 biieve the. seerctly, were nemb.rs of the U7 and that they were trying to gt members of the Pil. to join up with the UM... "One of these tielve men, onc Pete Carter, whom I knew personally, talked to mo in Springfield in June or July, 1937, in the business section of Springfield, at wich tine Cartcr told me that if I wanted to work in Mine B, I wuld have to join the UK’. No other threats vere made to m. I understind that the othcr eleven of these men were contacting menbers _ of the PMA in an effort to gct then to change over to the UN”. T learned ©. ~ of this by word of mouth. I felt that these tuelve men were being paid . by the UH for this specific job, that is, gctting the wen to join UM: f®LAbout Nay, 1937, James Hale, one of these men, started driving a nea automobile and the miners said he got it frou UL., for the work he did for that union. F -~ 290<