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Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ET aL. NTERVIE T a Laon ne very broken knglish, c “ organisers at the mine were his friends, and never asked him to join the ULM, but that he did so voluntarily. He executed the following written statement. "Springfield, Tllinois September 10, 1943 ny ee... the f wing voluntary statement mene ne oF a nT know to be Special . of Justice, eee eee ingfield, Tllinois and I was arrive e United States in a U.S. citizen in Springfield, "The first mine union I joined was the United Mine Workers of America, referred to hereinafter as the UM", about t Call City, Tllinois. I worked there for a couple of years. ed at the Old nd from Nest Kine in Springfield fro 7 worked on WPA. In 1935 I went to wor Hine and con work there until the mine closed on May 12, 1937. ithen the mine re-opened in November , 1939 I went back to work there as a PA. man, I am refer- ring to the frogressive ifine workers of america, I worked there until the Fall of 1940 and quit because I was sick, In the first part of 1940 I joined the Ulfr because most of the miners were joining the UM/. No onc asked me to join the UM.. "T reside at I am employed "I was not working in the coal mines from 1932 to 1935. “ihen I started in Hine B, I joined the Bia. I went to only a few PA meetings and do not know how Flshoff got along with the PMA union. 4s far as I know, both the PMa and the UM] treated mc fair. I just wanted to work and had no trouble with anyone. No one asked mc to join the Uy, JI do not know anything about the wage scale contract, or the wage scale trouble between Elshoff and Local 54, PMA. tl knew the following men who worked at Mine B, They were work=- ing at Minc B, while I was there. They never came to me house, They did not ask me at any time to join the UMI; Frank austin, Tony Flotch, Dominic Pasquale, Janes Hale, Charles Bohannon, John Ananias, George Jacaway, John Sirtout, Joe :.lbanese, indrew Schrelevious, I never heard ~ 124 «