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| C Vv / Re: JOHN L. LEWIS, ETAL. , Springfield, Tlinois, t his residence by Special Agents INTERVIEW WITH was interview on September 16, 194 is presently employed as a digger at hine is residence telephone is awa speaks English poorly and understands very little English, ana ne Wou.c make a very poor witness. He advised he had never been arrested. “Springfield, Til. Nw Sept, 16, 1943. "Ty, » Springfield, Jll. make the following voluntary statement to a hom I know to be Special Agents of the Federal Eureau of Investigation. J make it Without fear of threat, force, and promise of any kind. field, a U.S. in citizen in I started to work in n Vine TAT in abou I was a member of the U.L.W. at that time. In 1532 I joined the P.N.A., but I do not know why except because the rest of the men did and I did not want to lose my job. ing 4 1 "In about Sept. of 1941 I got a letter from RYAN telling me he had sold Mine 'A' to ELSHCFF. I did not think much about it, but at the next F.M.A meeting we were all tzelking about whether ELSHOFF would open Mine 'A'. We told our pit committee to see ELSHOFF and ask him if he was going to open Mine ‘A! and at another meeting which I think was at Redmen Hall, the committee told us that ELSHOFF said if we went U.M.W. he would open Kine tat, I also heard that ELSHOFF would haul coal thru Mine 'B' from Mine ‘A’ if Mine ‘A’ would not go U.M.W. No one ever told me I had to join U.K.W., and no one ever forced me to, but I knew I had to join U.L.W. to get my job at Mine ‘A’. I may have gone to a meeting at the Elks Club on a Sunday when the men voted to go U.M.W. but I cannot remember. I had been at a wedding for two cays and had pretty much to drink, I cannot remember when I joined U.V.W, but I think it was at the U.%.W, hall. "It makes no difference to me if I am with U.M.W. or P.ELA, "Y cannot understand English well. This statement of two pages has been read to me and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge. (signed) nay WITNESSES : Special Agent, F.5.I. Special Agent, F.B.I.* = 428 - ( 6 \ en ciaititasaiiuness oiksnih-onenanie tute tpeadimaniaie adnecthandilie: anita thedate ama hich Datnem it cin tent een tieiaiatnn Hailed Hectan ati nlite ait tatiana idler iid inte ncaa, Rome