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sarge caf = awe we agg . net® wee me ce ee Ma ne a A cA ° . : oO Re: JOR L. LEWIS, ET AL. * | H7~ b 1D . ! “ive VIE VITH NO was interviewed at his residence, «WS, Spvinefield, Tilinois, on August 28, 7'1943 by Special agents ond (a He stated that he was born in and cam to the United States in * He was naturalized in He speaks Englis very poorly an not aa te 5: ttl d not make avery good witness advised that he has no criminal record, The following signed statement was obtained from . "Springfield, Ill. August 28, 1943 "T, Springfield, Tll., mike the lollowing volimtary statement ——— and | cco-vpe-imacerers ieee I know to be Special heenee GE edera cau of Investigation. I make it without fear the of threat, force or promisc of any kind. #7 was born 3 came to the U. S. in in P and first joined a wnion in Springfield, +, in when sylvania I becane a member of United Hinc Workers of America, "I started working in Mine 'Bt in Springficld in about and when the UM? local turned and started with the Pro- gressive Wine Workers of amcrica in 1932, I becamo PMA. : "Botweoen 1932 and 1937 neither the Mine 'B' company nor the UMM tried to make mc change back to ULW. I liked the PMA and I did not think they were crooked, But I was afraid the UM7 vas crooked. . ®I romembcr the bombing cases and I don't think the men who wore convicted got a fair trial, I think John L. Lewis sent in a lot of witnesses, "During the time between 1936 and 1937 some of the mon - 4n Pu were trying to get us to go over to “Mi. They wore Bumgarner, Bowling Grecn Bohannon, Pasquaic, Tony Plotch and Sone others I cannot romember, These mon wore kicked out of Br hovenuen af thig. Pian Wea we Wea "J did not go to a *H A mecting the night before we wont on strike on Hay 12, 1937. But when we went on strike our PM leaders told me wo wert striking because of the wage scale. They didn't say we wore striking, they said the company just didn't want to pay us our back wages. e 310 « a a ae - ~ NN a oan ene eee