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¥ JOHN EDGAR HOOVER ged DIRECTOR : . | . | CY . 7 -_ dvDeral Burean of Jnuesti, Aon 4 : Ynited States Department of Justice PAT: LOS . Mashington, 1. ¢ t "4:00 py December 20, 1939 MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE SAC Listerman called from Cleveland with reference to his tnterutew today with Safety Director LILO , tor and who Signed to go into the safety conmittee work. epectal Agent was also present at the conference. bh? ir, Listerman cea that first of all he save Ness the nese Cc fr Sage Us atscce sed in our calls end broucht to Ais citention the four points and collateral issu i Lr. FUSternan fast night. Er. Ness expressed the opinion , that he could see no necessity of getting in touch with jyash- tngton now, in view oj today's conference. lr. Listerman stated that Ness first outlined the _ proposition in considerable detail, Sonewhat later, Carl Smith, Secretary of the Cleveland Incustriol safety Founcil, anepeared on the Scene ana explained the work and the succes of the Council. During the latter part of the conyerence, Robert\Chanberlain, assistant to Elliott Wess, came in assert- edly t6@ see ifr. Ness and sat in on the remainder of the conference. Mr. Listerman stated that he outlined in con- Siderable detail the information about which we spoke last a niahte Th ur, Listerman stated that they explained that the plan was still in a jormative stane; th t they had not devel- opeé any information at the present time, and that they felt that they had discussed the plan with former SAC Guinane at Ghout the time it wus being ornanized. They admitted, however, that they had a meeting in October and discussed the plan before they talked to Guinane about it, but said that they jJelt that they hog discussed tt with ur. Guinane and that he : would pass the information along; that as long as Guirane made - no objection to it they supposed thet tt met with hts approval. I inquired whether he pointed out that they dic not ask for anu views; that they told us what they were Coina ses eeee od. _ asking about tt. Ife re} that ne pointed tacs 0 Et OuGe a RECORDED & INDEX Oot! G -/3 ; Mr. Nese satc that oricinally Lieutend Taskin cane to him und discevssed his problems. He statec thet this was before the «resicential proclanction, and thpf he tolds: .., . Haskin thet he did have quite a problem on plant protection, y = Saovovanre, esptonare, ete., and sucoested that they get to- ara te re . f . elt a : “ att duo = gether with the incustrialists. ts ee a Bean : a | ee i