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ao 7 oe ‘ oe roy ay 4 faghery yee ar 1 i { R s F : at mime ad Pe Fe: JOHN L. LEVIS, ET AL LIEW OK Le bess. didn't go to many of the progressive meetings. - f . renvoer fpoing tu ue vl Lhe puverwocive mectings CONG and I think it was at Redman's hall, I guess nothing was settled at this meeting except that 211 of the men vhe were at that meetinz seemed to be in favor of progressive. T runecber that some of the men were apovinted to a cc.maittce to go eee Fithelf. Most of the men scased to think that. thoy had to join United in order to keup their job, but I can't explain why they all felt that ray. Somebody said both Mine A and Mince B vould be run by on2> wiien and they all scemed to think that umless wmited mon ran the minc it rouldn't open in the fall, "T didn't go to any other necvings & was not at the mesting in the Hiks Club ¥h.n the ria decided to re United. JF was never beatcn or threatened in any voy, but hed the feocling tha: i. might happcn some day. I joined the United ifine Lorhers w.ios, voc:usc I ras afraid I vould lose mr job «t linc a if I didnit sign up. I went to a meeting at the UY. hell coftcr the mecting at the Elks and at that time I joined the UM... 2 hud been working ebout tro vecks vhen I joined in the fall of 1941. "This statement hes bewn reud to me y end it is truc to the best of iny monory. Witnesses: Special Acents, F.58.I. U.S. Dept. of Justice" - 542 -