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Re; JOHN L. LEVIS, ET4L. Special Age and stated he did not have e criminal record. sg unebie to speak Fuglish very wall and would make a poor witness. STORVIE’ ITH eee reer pers ce errr A Springfield, Tllinois was interviewed at his home on Sep : in 1943 by QU wr niche the following statements “Springfield, Ill. September 16, 1943 “TI, rinpfield, Illjinsi make the following voluntery statement to and whom I know to be Snecial Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ° force, threate, or prer.ises have been made in obtaining this statement and I know that whot I may sey may be used in a court of ler. +s wer toro ‘I nic etaa oe UeSe in iy and I berame a neturalized citizoan o @ UsSe in a "I was employed eat Mine 4 in Ga :: & digger and I stopped working at Fine A in 1942 because the air was bad in the mine. ; “I am nov employed at Panther Creek Mine #5, Springfield, Ill. as a member of F.k.A. "J becams a member of Uel’.We inf: I remained & member until 1932 at which time I changed to PeM.A- because my looal U.lLl. union changed to Eeliese for some unknown refeson. “I rend in the newspcper in about Sept. 1941 that ELSHOFF bought Mine Le I thought at thut time that ELSHOFF would operate Kine 4 as en U-MW. mine os he operated Kine B as UskeWs “prior to the timc ELSHOFF bought Mine A the employees were satisfied with Peliei. I thought P.M was a good union, but it made no difference to me whother I was o momber of UetieNe or Pelee as both unions are cbout the SAaAMGs “about two or thres deys aftor ELSHOFF bought Mine A I attended a moeting at Poles. he also attended another meeting at Pelvis holla few days lator. iting 3: ma ebout these meetings. ware ’ woes in charge of those moetings. spoke and so did several] other persons, the names of vham I do not know, I do not remember what went on at these meetings, but someone made tho stctemont that if the employees of Tiine A did not join U.M.Vi.e ELSHOFF would not open tho mine. 1 decided at this time to join U.EN.V. so as to keep my Jobe P - 426 «-