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gts seats oo ag , BU 44-5 Pond « stated, were contained in the National Labor Relations Sopra files maintained in Chicago, Illincis. Mr. RYDER ecnversed willingly without clearance from hie superiors in Washington. VEYER §. RYDER stated thet from hearsay he had learned thet the National Labor Relations Board Field Examiners, LEISERSON and WILLIAVS, hed investigated instant dispute about the time that the JForressive Mine Workers of smerica had filed a protest with the National Labor Relations Board that the "B" Mine had refused to bargain with the officials of their orranization. stated that he was extremely uncertein as to the time of this inves- tivation, but he fixed it at about the end of the long period during which the "B™ Mine did not cperate. Mr. RYDER stated that the next investigation he had rd about was that conducted during late 1940 and early 1941 by JAMES CQMCLARK, a Field Examiner working out of the Chicaro office of the National Labor Relations Board, RYDER advised thet he had heard from some source, presently unimeown, that CLARK had at that time just finished extensive investigations in Kentucky concerning United Mine Workers and Progressive Fine Workers disputes and that in these hentucky investigations CLARK had found the United Mine Workers justified in their claima. RYDBR further advised that because of these Kentucky investigations the Progressive Mine Workers were claiming bias on the part of CLARK because he would not report that UMW were using illegal methods in obtaining membership increases in Mine "B". RYDER fur- ther stated that he did not know if this PMY claim was correct, nor had CLARK ever indicated to him his (CLARK'S) personal epinion in the matter. MF. RYDER stated that he accompanied CLARK to the "BY Mitts sromy ee days intedigately Year's Day, 1942, durfng whick o i a fea. CLARK 4%" é * . = 4 . fter Neb dy assisted CLARK Ai Tate Mie s "B* Mine emplagges, RYDY that thif Wis the’ only t{@i he was ¢ OWegrned in a BiNe ai spud Scatsy BSS £43. ee early February, 194% = RYDE® acvised that BE the béginatAg’ of, 3s assignsent in "Bg" Mine there had been numerous beetings, small riots, etc., and that his ssigne ment to the mine wig not go much as an investigator into the relat merits of the différent factions, but rather as a pacifler. tp. OF aE: some type of agrooabie eorklonat without further bloodshed. RYDER statef . thet he interviewed numerous beatine victims, ete.; that he believed he incorporated the results of these interviews inte the Chicaco records, but that he remembered no definite information was sbtained es o result of these interviews. Mr. RYDER was pressed as to specific evidence disclosed during the interviews with the victims he hed mentioned, but steadfastly maintained thet they ylelded no certain information es to the identity of assailants,