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a Ivy “ITH roy JOHN L. LETIS, ET aL. 8 interviewed et ee eS & cooperative. If deemed necessary, he would be a satisfactory witness tc testify to those matters set out in the following statements ment to ae both of whan have identified them- selves as being Special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigttione No threats or pranises or been made to induce me to make & stutement. and presently re- I have been o miner off and on i. ir o the Ue Se Tf became a citizen in und joined the U.M.ije in I hive never held un office in eny unione I first started working ut Mine B in about July of 1940 us a timbermun. I worked es a Timbermon ut Peabody #59 fran about 1930 wmtil 1940, iI had not been getting clong very well at Pecbody, which wes a United Mine, and desided I would go over to Mine B to get a jobe FaLCETTI had pranised me & job at Mine 3 in about 1928 or 1929, but I never ‘ot the job then. I kmew OSCAR FaLCEITI of course, but didn't xnow him very well. ‘hen I went out to sea FALCETTI about a job in 1940, he esked me whut kind of a fob I wanted, und I suid I had been « timberman, so he said he needes timbermen, becuuse the mine wes in bed shupes FaLCETTI didn't ask me what union I belonged to and didn't say enything as to whet union I should joine About the next day after I started work at ine B, ome of the Committeemen from United asked me whet union I belonged toe Since I was u member of the U.M.if. ut Paubody in good standing I told them I was 0 U.M.se mume I then signed sane kind of & oard and they had my curd transferred from Peabody over to Mine Be I worked ut Mine B until Janucry of 1942 and quit at thet time be~ ekhift ned AlAawlée Then 0 work niehwtea. T ent am th Suuse I wos on a Hig t ehift and didn't 2326 6 work Rigecte « BOC my old job back at 4/59 thon becuuse I could work deyse I om still em- ployed at #69. “Ihile I was at Mime 3 I never hud any trouble with any of the men &bout uion ectivitiese I don't kmow unmything about uny trouble ct the Mine - I heurd about men fighting, but I didn't see any of ite I wos never u membor of Progrossive, but alwuys got Clong fine with tho member of Progressivas. I've alwys been frionds with ~ 192 -