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Fe: JOHN L. LEIS, Ef AL. . . | fllinois, Was erviewed in nis reads, speaks and understands i p mm “, testiry in court, However, he seemed when one considers that Mine 3B. aid he 3 ness fo Lal = thich would be af- fected seriously if 7% auay or two, He claimed to have no criminal record. SE 2h the following signed 1 statemont. . . "Springfield, Ill. September 13, 1943 uw make the following voluntary statemant to whom I know to be Special Agents =) c rede : migation, of my om free will, with no threats or promiscs made to ne. ng. J joined the United Mine “OTR pring member of that union until 1932, when I Joined the Pr and worked there Mhile Ivas an officer of the P.M.A., I had no trouble with the management of Hine B, and, in the period from 1932 to 1937, I knew of no trouble between the union and the management, had no part in the formation of the P.M.A. and, knew nothin out conditions dor and had no lnowledge of anyths sprang of 1937, I heard that conditions betwocn the union and the mine weren't so good, but I don't know that the disputes, if any, Were about. "Just before the strike in 1937, some P.M.A. men had joined the U.M.Ti., and Tere agitating among the men to pull them away from the P.M.A, Some of these men rere Pasquale, Carter, Austin, Shrelevious, Bohannon, Hale and Plotch. JI as under the impression that these men were paid by tho U..'. to pull men avay from tho P.M. A. I dontt r wD : F vo - 141 -