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c Z Re; JOMN L. LEWIS, ET AL. who resides at a - Springfield, Illinois, was intervi on the evening of September Special mike an average witness, e has an intelligence abov the average miner and can express himself well, He is not too difficult te understand, despitc the fact he has no teeth. He furnished the follow- ing informtion as set forth in his signed statement. "Springfield, Ill. September 14, 1943, I was born in I am now employed at ig make owing statement a =: ecanssurgeyre who have identified to be opecia gents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. No promiese, threats, or consideration of any ki_d have been mde to me to make this statement. I an willing, if necessary, to go to court and make this statement. _"] have worked at Mine A since about I was employed at Mine # in 1941 when Ryan sold out to the Mine & coal company, Before that time there was no talk about changing wiions, or going over to the Ube. I was a member of the “rogressive Mine "orkers of amcrica. I would just as soon have stayed in the PMY but I joined the ULV when the rest of the men did, in order to stay and work cut there, "as I understand and recall, there were some meetings at the Vrogressive Hall. At the first meeting, the men did not know what was going to be donc about the minc under the new ownership. There had beer a lot of rumors, and so a committee was appointed . to go and see Elshoff and find out what he was going to do with the mine. «as I recall this committee could not find Elshoff, At the next mecting a New committee was formed, and they went to see Elshoff. They could rot find him, and someone in the meeting sug- gested that they get in touch with Ray Edrumson and that he would find blshoff. They evidently found Lishoff right away, The committee care back to that sare meeting I think and reported that Elshoff told then that he did not plan to open Mine 4 with frogressives, and would take coal out through Mine B, I was not oh the committee, what I recall that the committee announced, = were on that committees nk, EI ee pe mr ye it