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RE: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET AL. one and I don't recall whot was in them. "I received a letter that the mine would reopen jn November, 1939, cm an open shop basis. I went to work os & member of Feliwie , after the mine opened a fight cccurred when_a man named whe had secured a job at the mine, hit who WOE & Pebaae member. I don't know what started this fight. om this time cn there were several fights and the spies mentioned above were alweys going eround in the minc attempting to get them to join U.\.%. and when the men refuseni they would beat them up. "Short ttn the winter cf 1940, efter most of the men hed geno down the shaft, & bunch cf the spies b ceen boating several ducg payi embers of P.H.A. I saw them beat up cn and ? "TI ycted in the N.L.R.B. eloction in Feb. 1941 and when it wont | Ushiewte, 1 quit the mine and went to wrk (ii iy i! "During the time most of the fights o¢curred I was Pit Committecman end I settled all gricvances whether the men belonged to P.M.&. or U.Meit hen the minc reopened, I suggestod sevcral P.M.A. mon be hired but Falsetti seid he would hire the men he wented and he refused to hire any P.M.A. men. He refused to hire a a P.M.A&. member. 7 I havo reed this 5 page stctement and it is truc and correct to the best cf my kncwledge. /:/ witnessed: Specie] Agent, FBI. Special agent, FBI. . “Springficld, Ill. September $, 1943. ‘y, addition tc the statenent which I gave t the one voluntary whom I know to be Spocial Agents of the .l Burcau sti- gatione No threate or promises of any kind have been made to get me to ~ 94 « wool ‘ ‘ wf, nore . . 4 id i ' . coy ar + : . ' . .