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pea FBI Is Working on Case; J’xplains His ‘Pleasure’ Trip to Ilincis re aliy to deprive emplo “ By Goanos H, Cote (Cr Mae’ B Go oF thet ed PM's Bureeu rig ts under the National Lapor WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—John_L Lewis, president of} “Relations Act. That Taw guar Gini the United Mine Workers, is Innocent of any charge that! workers fhe right to join the . to Springfeld, 1l.—even Any public report on the OPA investigation of the trip wil} exon- erate Lewis of all charges and show that the mine union chiefs drive from Alexandria, Va., to the Minois coal ficids was no pleasure jaunt. Cov It Up Lewis to Rinois on busi- oess—business thatthe chose to cov- ecup bygbis remark to a reporter at’ Decatyr HL, thet be was just drivines os to SpringheRi to see his mot! wis’ C hook for pascline perils hist td yse'*his Buick fos ‘ business. + The fact is thit Lewis went to Springticld becattse agents of the Federal Bureatt of Investigation were there checking into the finan- cial transactions between Lewis’ un- jon and the Mine B Co., a coal oper- afor that engaged in. a Jong and -€pstly lockout of members of a rival ZFL, union at a time when Lewis vas trying to oust the rival union ma Ilhinois coal ficids. wee TF E32- Mic SEP 9 1943 nnn eee eH O77 enenencern ners ina eDOCS ATCO D LN CCC $350,000 Lewis ‘Loan’ to Min} ———$—— he used gasoline for plegsure driving on his recent trip bis 84-year-old mother, Mrs. Anna Lewis.. ur. Traey — Acers . Carson, . . Barbo Hendoa_ Mumford . Starke sibility that the union leaders of their own choice. A written law he spent 36 bours visitin ton the ough he spent 36 hours visiting} "1870, principal to break th _———— ! ku-Klux Klan, es such con- ~Qasted as Loan fy PTE cy i ¥ a ame law that was} “.+ The case is scheduled to beipre-) used to aid the UMW in 1938—the ve. fented to a grand jury et Spring-| year of the Mine B lockout—dur- re At ‘feld within next few weekslit) ing the ion of coal opera! F477 wey nm. tors in Harlan County, Ky. The| ae the jury was unable to agree. ' , Conviction under this law ‘minal ii | Evidence of the financia} trans- jection between the UMW and the Mine B Co. was first discovered | agents of the U. S. Treasury De- by PM last Fall, indicate t Lewis’ union handed the Mine Co. some $350,000 at about the time of the lockout that enabled UMW organizers to raid the rival The transaction is listed on the ct x 9 anion books as a loan. Since the partment durin, an investigation of FBi investigation was begun, Carl Lewis’ and the UMW books in a - Elshoff, president of the Mine 3) inxs matter were attempting to 400 its payroll during the time {if | ion in the case so bong that there ,, the fight for exclusive barg been that they are (the FBI is investigating the pos [nee er ra auc 39 988 Pu DAILY Page raga ig le Ay