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— ‘I oat at the checkers table with the Q. Have you any information conceming the National Labor Relations Board @lection of Decenber 15, 1937, after which the United Mine Workers claimed’ a fraud in oonnection with the electiont a. J wes present at the polling place throughout the entire period of this election. Field Examiner John J. Bertha was immediately in charge of the election and nade the preliminary arrangementa. J happened to be in Springfield at the same time on other Board business and et Rezionsl Director Bajork's request I went over te the election to asaeist Bertha, The election was held in the Armory. Shortly before the polls opened a representative of the United Mine Barkers osas in and handed Bertha a... letter or notice, indicating thet the United would act have cbeervers =. Present at the polis. The actual dalleting ws quite weventfal. — ob ef voters. Bertha sede a short talk te each greup-ef voters, Lapresaing - wpon them the secrecy ef the ballet after bie eligibility had been checked end kept the ballot box under his personal ebservation. About the only thing out incident involving the bringing in of a oripplied san walk by a couple of other miners. In an Progressive Unica representative handing thee to Bertha inal Progressive had sot printed them and wre pot distributing thea, charging that this was being done by the United Mine Barkers. ‘ - @. Do you know whether por not any investigation mas sade by the National Labor Relations Board of the allegation of fraud in the election ant what, if any, was the conclusion of the investi ,etion7 &. Yea, an investigation wus made. After the conclusion of the balloting the United Mine Workers fled with the Regional Director at Chicago, Objections to the conduct of the ballot. These Objections mre investi- Objections was prepared by Bajork and served upon the parties. fhis Feport sumerised the results cf the investigetion and together with the Sdjections becese a part of the formal record in the National Labor felations Board case known ag res Case Mo. &=361, reported « 4 5.1.5.5. 316. Thereafter, on January 3, 1938, the National Labor Pelations Board, after considering the objections and the investigation reported by Bajork, issued ite Certification of Representatives in this case and specifically found that nothing in the conduct of the election prejudiced the United and that the results of the belleting fairly represented the Gesires of the emloyeens ZI do act at this time recall the specifica - ~ gation the United in ite ebjestions except that I do renuxber py Vee ot tind fst Ue te fact unt the ealoms te in Springfield resained epen throughout the period of balloting. L was Glained that a State law existed existed prohibiting the sale of int detectcante @n election days and that, therefore, the saloons ghould have been closed while the Board's election was being conducted, The orizinal copies of the Objections and of the Regional Director's Repert on Objections are to be found in the formal gemiine signed coples of beth of these documents may be found in the formal files in the Chicago Regional Office of ths Boards In addition, the informal flles in the Chicago office should contain the detailed mterial cbtained ov