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f aoe . — ca ee ce en RG A A ne a C - O ae ana ele een mae alate OOTUALS AMD ramantt DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE r . WASHINGTON, D.C. - ———TotskCsiR j 144-10 Auguat 30, 1943 h. —_— MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR FE0EFAL BurkAU OF INVicTIGA? ION Re: Wine "B" -= Violations of Section 51, Title 16, ——— \ It is obvious from the facts that we now know that during the period 1937 to 1941, Elshoff and the Mine “B"” Coal Company expended large sims of money for legal fees and expenses in the various proceedings pefore the National Labor Relations Boer a exd in the Circuit Court of Appeals, in the effort by El shoff to avoid his obligations under the Netional Labor Relations Act. There also must have been substantial sums expended for leceal fees and expenses in connection with Elshoff's injunotion proceedings in the Federal Court in November, 1937. It is believed, of course, that all of these expenses awore financed out of the sums which were advanced to Blshoff by Lewis and Edmundson, ard that the letter two subjects must fave realized that the money was being expended for this pur- poses Im some cases, we may be able to show that particular payments were made with the specific view of financing this litigation. trial. We would have a case where one union was finanoing an employer in his effort te litigate awy the rights of Y Wy another union. hk cy This picture would be extremely valuable in scase of rs \ It is requested, therefore, that an effort be made to hy ascertain the totel expenses which Elshoff incurred during v u this period, and if possible, to connect up specific © Payments —, from U.?.%. With these legal expenditures, ae - CO D. In this connection, it is noted the the f: | Avlinston, Straw: end Shaw, cnisago, jilinois, 3 gpl ia coumsel for the ine "B" Coal Comnany on some ¢ | > bre | a Pay!