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INTERVIEY WITH especially if all the gossip information he, DOHERTY, . _ JOHN 1. DOHERTY hes is trne, since LEWIS is the type of mn who confides (continued) only with the necessary. people on matters such as this, DOHERTY mentioned thet between 1985 ani 1936 regular eudits were | made under the BNEED administration in Illincia, After DOHERTY left the ULIY organization in Illinois there were no audits for a period of some time until PACE was appointed as auditor; that PACE's appointment was made for the reason that the local membership had come to expeot the regular audits | then made be DOHERTY, and that they demanded that these regular endits be continued. He stated that PACK wes apparently appointed merely to satisfy the local union members in the question of audits. DOHERTY ateted that he had heard of an audit and transfer of records from Local 54 to International Headguarters, but that this was really hearsay or gossip information, and that he had no direct information eoncerning it. DOHERTY stated that one JOHN J, BROWNLEE, United Steel Workers of America, CIO, 1500 Commonwealth Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was pro@~ ent at one or two of ELSHOFF's parties at the Morrison Hote] in Chicago, and allegedly heard ELSHOFF leave instructions with the hotel and the Morrison bar that EDMUNDSON wes to have anything he wanted at the hotel, and that it was to be charged to BLSHOFF's uccount. . OT, From DOHERTY's interview it appears that he ie familiar with the . general stcry as appeared in the newspapers and from gossip from iabor leas- ers, but is un ble to furnish any direct information of value concerning this Cases . : | |