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RR eta, retiree H - f Office of the Altorney General Bashington B.C. de July 26, 1943 MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Attached is a memorandum dated July 20, 1945, from Assistant Attorney General Berge, which I have approved, recommending a full and oomplets investigation into charges that John IG Lewis, Kay Edmundson, and Waiter J. Janes, offipiais of “the United Mine Workers of America, ard Carl Hy Elshoff, owner of Mine "B", Springfield, Illinois, conspired during the years 1937 to 1941, in violation of Section 51, Title 18, United States Code, to injure and oppress Elshoff's employees in the free exercise of the rights secured to them by the Rational Labor Relations Act, Also attached ig @ memorandum from ir. Berge dated July 24, 1943, which outlines the scope of the inveati gs tion and the precise inquiries desired. Mr, Berge points out that the statute of limitations will probably have rum against the alleged offense sometime in Merch 1944. This fact, and the oharacter of the case, require that this investigation be given priority. fimatt Men? Feyeray’ fk! al ¢ aly Li LC » Cy COPIES DESTROYED A : y ING R&LLJAN 15 1962