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aie C - © Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET AL Dre 7 27D INTERVIEW WITH The following investipati nois, on Illinois, agents interviewed é * and he advised he never has been arrested. It was 4" note c understood the questions asked him and gave answers ali right. S Eowever, he did not seem to know much about the pertinent period as will be noted in his statement. He appeared to be an honest individual and Was cooperative. YY» cow can : mas His statement is as followsi Ill. Sept. 2, 1943 2: -: make the following statement to Agen threats or promises have been made me to procure this statement, have been employed i I first have never he a Union office, I started at Mine About 1936. was a charter member of P.M.A. because the U.M.%. local to which I belonged went to P.M.A. in 1932, "From the time I startcd at ‘ine "B" to the time of the strike I had no chance to observe relation between P.M.A. & Elshoff. I never heard the management favor J.M.7,. in any way however. There wore no unusual disputcs betveen the local officials and the members so far as I know. So far as I know therc was no racketeering by the local officials, I don't think that in this period I ettonded more than 5 meetings this was because of the time it took to go to Springfield to attend. Concerning the Frogressive men who vcore sontenced for bombing and such I certainly dent think they did all they were sceused of. While I was there the tmnion SAMRa ee a a a Woof BUSS ou Us VWNLLS 2 WOS Lier wea oaks dues scemed normal and I didn't know of any money being handled wrong. From the time I went to Nine B up te the time of the strike I never saw U.M.W. picket the mine. I heard that there were some men in the P.M.A. a who wore trying to switch the men to U.M.7. I never saw any literature -_ distributed by U.M."). I never heard of ELSHOFF giving any parties for U.M.w. officials. "IJ rember that just before the mine closed we were working under a temporary agreement. As I recall therc was some kind of a settlement. = 59 = Te mr ae aS EE a I IT MS Qe CE eg em RR er gaa oe ee a yen ne ee ee ee meee