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a é Res JOHN L. LEvIS, PT iL. \ , rs Tllinois, was intervidic parece TCs ce on ember 12, 1943, by Special ,cents iy : a7 § Sete EA Ay C=: : and understands in een a and can '. “express himself? couerently. He does not read English well, . but is able “ to engage in ouestion and anstcr conversation. said he has never been arrcsted ror a crime. If necessary, he will testify. It is noted that statcd he has not been naturalized and is not a citizen of this cowry, The following signed statenent was furnished by az "September 12, 1943 to whom I know to be Special afents of a are anvestigation, of my om free will, with no threats or promises made to me, "T an living < Springfield, Illinois and an working at Panther U 4 I a born Sy po Cc HO” . IT came to the United States n= ore 5 and came back to this country PC pormanen ntl ‘ie avi: never been naturalized, fT joined the U.N... in In 1932, I joincd the P.M... Iwas not working a an. a mombcr of the P.K.i. now, tine. "I began working at Itine B in 1934. js far as I was concerned, I vas entirely sotisfied with the P.%.4.., and conditions at the mine Scemed to be pretty good, sofore the strike in May, 1937, I heard thet thore were some mon in the minc trying to ret the miners to sign petitions and cards for the U.1.".. One was an Italian, now dead, whose name I can't remamber. JI don't knov who the others were, but no one approached me on it. "J think that the company really caused the strike in lay of 1937. Iwent out to work one morning, and was changing clothes in the rash house before going dovm into the mine, when Dorinic Pasquale, indy Schrelcvious, George Jacavay and Tony Plotch tried to stop mo fron roing down. They told née that tine B wouldnit pay the wages the other mincs wer: paying, that the mine wouldn't pay the back pay of the non to szpril 1. Dominic Pasquale told me to sit down - I told him no, that wanted to vork, and went dorm into the mine, The next day, the Pi... officers asked the vaneprement to fire these men, and the managenent refused, The men then quit work about two o'clock, because they didn't went to work with the UU... men, The company had - 44 -