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try os BO a Ryo Praia! & eek, ~ Se wing sige t e 4 af ge , t ee Ke + owt, eee ih Pe, palin Oe ree ay ey le. Chg 7 ¢ \ S Inrsaviey wre ae M rae ino ea A ee le recente litle Tt “th ews seen L RE? JOHN L, LEWIS, ET AL b7c pip 96542 Springfield, is, was interviewed on August 27, 1943 bz Special Avents nly: caine ae =: aA good appearance, is sincere, anc would mike & presentable witness to the facts . within his knowledze.. He executed the following written statements “Sprinsfield, Dlinois August 27, 1943 " make the following voluntary atatenent to My = and whom I know to be Special Avents of the Feder. eeu of Investigct_on, U. &. Departuwert of Justice. I joined the United one sip be refered to hereinafter as UMy about in when I was about fourteen yeas old. I worked in the wines in -1d later moved to Svrin¢gfield, Illinois where I have lived for the ast vears. it present residence is fcorin-fiels. TEliwe + to T am emoloyed by "I first svarted workin: in Mine "B" near Sprin-field, Tu. about Qs a menber of Ui. Tvorked in that mine as a menber of Us until September, 1352 until the rroz:-ssive Mine workers of America was formed, This iast nemed union will be relerred to hereinafter as the Pi. Lf was bors "On Me, 12, 1957, the dar I recall the miners first struck at Mine "BY, IJ left the mine and .ever worked there after that date. I never held any office in any union, "From the time I started working in Mine "B" until September, . 1932 relations were generally good be wveen UM? and Carl Blshoff, the mine operator, : : "Y heard thet Eishoff had visited Ray Edoundson's Office in the DM: buildin. in Springfield, T11, and had been seen a mmber of times leavin, the UM! buildin., I heard Oscar Falcetti made trips to Auburn, Virden, Dawson, and Sprinzfield, Tilinois to try to persuade P's members to change over to UM:. These trips were made after May, 12, 1937 after Mine "BM had struck, I have no personal informetion concerntn this, but learned it by word of mouth; the ori;in of which is not known to me, "During this period I am firmly of the opinion that Elshoff and Falcetti did not want to do business with the officials of the Piik union, + 265 -