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S 10/22/43 OCT re ee = paper articles which é is fines -Heralé and New _ York Daily Mirrer on 19, 1943. Yeu will sote thal the souspaper articles aliege that Sdermdecn, President ef the Tilincis United Mine forkars, Springfield, is, Oearged thet seuvene in Bashington ws \opeans the telephones of the Dnited Mine Sorkers Union ant bis heue telephone. articles alse indicate Edmundson stated that as a result ef this practice was necessary to establish an “underground pony aupress® ayaten ef commnicn- ticn among United Mine Barkers efficials. | CEs ba FF a ‘ Ap you knos, this Bureau eonducted an investig«ati quest of ths allegstion that Jobn Lo or hapdiaagl ffiesre ef the Pimited Mine Workers sf America, ané Carl Ei, heft, omer ef tine 8, Spring- conspired during the years 1937 to 1942 in Violation ef ths = Pd Lad Ss. 2 p eivil rights atatutes to injure amd oppress Kishoff's employess in the free j Lb exercise of the rights secured to idonal Labor helations Act. & It was alse alleged that Lewis paid Elsheff daring B tax, pa, She veare 2937 Se 1941 with the ene 00 imposes unfeir Be ace Ne Jaber practiovs his eepleyess, who were et thet tine members of the ae = 4 /£3 . + . sf a 6 , {I thought the allegations made by Bay iduumiscn, on set forth in. - the attached sepies af newspaper articles, should be brought to your a = éion so that there would not be any misunderstanding in the astter, ihasmod as there bas been mo technical surveillance of any kind sapleyed by tipo Bureau in the investigation ef this case, :