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7 | CG | O Re: JOHN L. LEIS, ET AL eee rag a Pe br~Anp ry INTERVIE: ITE 0 “after the mine openod in 1939, = and his = buddy, 21s0 known Be b-th of «: sore from St. , 3 continu Louis, cxme to m oon at the mine, anc told me thet if I did not sign up with U.U.7., I would not have my job. They nerely talkod to me, and did not threaten me. At this time I was working in the nine with Andy Schrolevious, who did not speak to me W"hile working in ISine B after 1939, I know that U.M.%. mon vere gettin> better rooms in which to work than P.u..i. men throuvh the manire- nent's favorin- UL. les OP aw eh the tion r 4 ob ob wae Wit Bic¢$ wh died o PRAY 5 - U.th. In the eloction of February 1941, I votod for P.t.2 liked that union bettcr than U.i0. + ; vas o o j y J 2 j i "T don't recall when I joined U.i.. in 1941, but it was shortly after the election. I only signed up vith U..1.0. so thit I could get a job at tine B. I still preferred P.i..a. ~ "On the dry of the election in February 1941, the officers of .\ U.1.7. spoke to the miners in ne Band told them to vote for Ut. . \ | They said that they h:d to vote for U.il..., or Kine B vould not open up. ty They 21so said that Dlshoff would not recognize P.t.a. The statoments by | these men searcd many of the niners who then voted for U.N. if “arms alcral ten. Ree aed fae "This stitenent consisting of + ur other typewritten pages has boen road to m by i: I state that is truc to the bost of ny knowledge am receilection. * Titnesscas: “Special Agents, FEl, Springficld, 11." - 444 «