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bre bID Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET 4b (oo ¢ _i “INTERVIEW WITH . Tilinois interviewed z a OY agents 3 and Sar Notas Ss 8 SEmecitizen and speaks English good ana 5 oye eS: : Sar knowledge of pertinent facts to this case is x limited due to his not being employed at Mine "B" during the whole controver- sial period. He has no known criminal record. The following signed statement was obtained from pe] Til. September 4, 1943. make the following voluntary statement b who are Special Agents of the Federal No threats Or promises cf any kind have been made Til. and reside at Pe | “I began working in coal mines at iil. about i joined Uli at that time and remnined such unti @ when I joined r.M.A. I was working at Panther Creck Hine #1 et that tine and our local voted ta change to PMA and then the mine shut dowm. I did not work in the mines after that until I started at Mine "B" in 1936. Bureau of Tnvestigotion: to get me to make a statement. “T mew of no trouble at Mine "B" when I first started to work there but a month or so bofore the P.M.aA. contract ran cut, I remember some ene telling me that U.M.a. yes gitempting to sign up the miners in UM¥. & little later a man named , told me thet the shot firer whose name was (\ “Jimny” was asking the men to join U.M.w.e and that I should watch my step but he never did ask me to join UM "During this time I heard thet Joe «lbanese, Andrew Schrelevious, Dominic Pesquale, Pete Carter, Frank sustin, Tony Plotch, John snanies, John Sirtout, Charles Bohannon, James Hale, were all working as spies at Mine "B" but none of them ever approachcd me to get me to join UM. before the strike in 1957. "I did not know any of thcse men had becn expelled from P.M.A. at the time of the strike and I did not hear that we wore suppcsed to load _ cars short on the day of the strike. I worked a full day and loaded all — cars tho same as I had been and had two cars loaded in the mine which were 4 later hoisted when the mine «as opencd for one day by U.M.v%. I learned that the mine was on strike the next day when I went to work the next day. I learned thet the reason for the strike was because the men refused to work -31- me eR nm ng Tg ae me regen me