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{ ~ on: Evidence Not Strong Enough ~ ree D. J. Believed [eo echo Case Against J ol pts _ Justice Department officials would not - oa se ports that they had abandoned plans to have ce ae ety _Aeterming whether United Mine Workers TLewia and the Mine B. Coal Co., Springfield, “gral rights atatute in a $350,000 transaction. Th that the department had decided that evidence it - yelating since mid-summer did not warrant action. masigned some of his top-flight attor- Atty, Gen. Biddle was known to have peys to the case, which involved a question whether the transaction was in violation of the Wagner Act right of Mine B. employes to bargain col- lectively. That would have been ¢on- gidered a violation of the 73-year~old eivil rights statute. Tt was eaid that Lewis lent or gete _ pbout $250,000 to the company in 1938, allegedly to cover {te losses in a lock- out of employes who were members of the APL Progressive Mine Workers. Evidence of the transaction was . brought to the department's attention by the Internal Rev'nue Bureau, which discovered it while investigating & pos- sible tnoome tax fase. It later was found that vo tax: law violation was) Ly — ae |\Z¢ = fA ROT RECORDED 87 NOV 22 1943 et re eel fY eee ee elt eR TI soe RR NRT eee re mre ee ae Hemp ee Sa Te a