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ed € ‘RE: JOHN L. LECIS, ET AL i INTE VT rH joi Sccecial A,an and a on Sectonbor 4, 1) his residence, Springfield, Illinois. he willingly answercad the questions pro- noundcd to him, and indicated that he would be willing to vestify to the facts as set forth in the following signed statcment furnished by him: ” ake the following voluntary statement to on See oor t know to be Spocial Avents of _ —— Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Depertment of Justice. Sorin-field, Ill. tT I was born on nT rosid-= rred aS a Sprin ficid. "The first mine union I joined wes the United Mine "orkgrs pled Ge referred to hereinafter as the Uli, ee in At this time, I was working in the Feabod; Hine #6, near Sprinilieia, Tllinois. "T heve held tha foiiowin: of the eat wag MELTO be ce atieall ‘ 7 A 5 : i attometcd to go bacx to work there although I heard the ine was trying to re~onen. J felt there would be trouble there, so Z did not return to work there, cven to got my tools, Prior to Scptember, 1932, I was working at Peabody line #57, at Springficid, Tilinois. This wine shut down when the ULMT ballot boxcs were stolen. Iam reforring to the ballots submitted in connection ‘with the Wage Scale reduction vote. I voluntarily joined the PA in Suptcombsr, 1952 whon the miners at reabody Mine #57 voted in favor of PIL, at thet local, I folt that the PMA was a good union and that PHA officials of PMs well represented the miners in that union, . ° ~235- |