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Ahern RE: JOPW 1.. 2715, ET Al. INTERVIE. “ITE et Rochester, Illinois, was interviewed by 7 SY Special Agents on i +03 , his story in e calm and collected manner and seemed to ~ have & gocd reccllection of events at the mine during the tine he was em- ptcycd. My seoms tc be cf average intelligence and stated he would be will- ing to testify as tc the facts related by him. It is believed he would be a gocd witness fur the government. Subsequent to the time he executed his statonont, states that he hed appealed his discharge before a committec of union and ccmpany repre- sentatives, at which tine ho was reinstated. eee further that oabcut . ten doys leter Felectti rehired him and sont him to a section in be re~ j ferred to by the men as "Progressive Row". stated this particular section hed dirty ccel when found, ond if found the drivers couldn't pick it up. suid further he was in this secticn with abcut ten men in- cluding a man and his scn from I Pe men whe had been vigorously | in favor cf Progressive were sent tc spot, After working abcut ten | dcys in this spot, end after receiving numerous "iocks", > stated he decided to quit Hine B. There is being sct forth belew the following signed statenent executed by Ill. Sept. $, 1943. "I, mnke the following vcluntary statenent t an: bith cf whom have identified themselves as AGC edera a cf the ureau cf Investigcti. Neo threats or promises have been made to gat me to m.ke a statement. "Y was born : and presently reside on I heve been a member of the U.k.aw. union cff and on fcr the ES years.e At the present timc I an working "ZT hod worked at the Brewerton Mine before I went to work at Hjne B. I had heerd thot Felcetti was at the Browerton mine, but he loft before I startod end I never really mew Falcetti until I went cut to Mine B. ‘1° left the Brewerton mine in about 193 er the Brewerton mince closed, du! Ya) mich work &S 1 wns sick for about 6 months after it clcsed. wet "I believe I started at Lino B in the fall of 1940 ond left in ebout Kay of 1941, I was on wPA when I heard that Kine B was going tc hire mon. I sa at the mine and asked fcr a job driving. a me to wait until Uscor ceme in so when Oscar ceme in I talked to hin about a job. I am pretty sure I told him ebout ny being at Brewerten and = 212 - ne a ee Te