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MITTAL AMD WOMEER DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, D.C, 344-10 August 27, 1943 se MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR. a FEDESAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION No. 1 ne ; Meine "pt -. Violations of Section 51, Title 18. = s In my memorandum of August 11, 1943, I listed on page 4 the nanes of twelve men believed to have been expelled from the ~ Xr ogre ssive Mine Worsers of Americe prior to May 12, 19357. We have statements that none of these men appealed from the order expelling them, and that in one case a man voted for his own expulsion Boer es Br igual A ORS : ye I do not believe that I rhe noeet specifically to investigate fully the oirounstaipes surroun the trial of these men by the Progressive Unio's Triel Cam- mittees It is possible that Lewis and Edmundson contaalated the expulsion of these men from the Progressive Union as a ; method of precipitating a strike, it being agreed that Elshoff -—: would refuse to fire them as he was probably required to do under his contract. If this is the correct theory, these men would probably have been instructed not to put up any serious > resistance to their expulsion and even to cooperate to the ends cot at tT | ne OPIES DESTRoymyp [27 Cc F411 JAN 11 1969