EXHIBIT No. 68

AFFIDAVIT OF H. A. TANNER

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Union, ss:

My name is H. A. Tanner, and I am a member of local 706 of the United Association in El Dorado, Ark., and have been for several years. During the construction job of the Pine Bluff Arsenal I worked for Blaw-Knox as a foreman on this job for many months and made the collections of the $3.50 assessment from the members of local 706. I told the men in my crew who were not members of local 706 that they were not required to pay the $3.50 per week assessment unless they so desired, but if they did desire to make a voluntary contribution of $3.50 per week or any other sum that I would take same and send it in to the office. I made these collections and turned the money over to the job steward, Mr. Yocum, to take to the office, but at no time did Mr. Yocum tell me or anyone else in my presence, or did anyone else ever tell me that the men working in the Plumbers and Steamfitters' jurisdicition on this job were required to pay the $3.50 working assessment in order to hold their jobs.

It was rumored on the job that such was the case and Mr. Earl Griffin held a meeting of the employees on the job in an effort to stop this rumor and to inform everybody that no one had to pay the $3.50 working assessment in order to remain on the job. He stated this in plain English and I am sure that the several hundred people who were present at the meeting could not have misunderstood him in any respect, but it seems that perhaps all persons were not in attendance and Mr. Griffin held a second meeting at the same place to again emphasize that the men on the job were not required to pay the $3.50 working assessment in order to hold their jobs.

I have been a member of local 706 for a good many years and have always felt free to express my opinion upon any matter which came upon the floor at a local union meeting or to bring any matter which I thought important to the attention of the local union. I know that other people feel the same way and that we have had some very heated discussions on the floor of the union meetings. I know of no one who has ever been discriminated against by Earl or Ermon Griffin, or anyone else connected with local union 706, because of their views on any matter which has come upon the floor of the local union or for any other reason.

I have read the foregoing in the presence of Mr. Rush Hooten, the circuit clerk of Union County, and state that the same is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief on this 28th day of September 1960.

H. A. TANNER.

Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 28th day of September 1960 at the courthouse in Union County, Ark. [SEAL]

RUSH HOOTEN, Circuit Clerk.

EXHIBIT No. 69

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Garland, ss:

AFFIDAVIT OF FRANK W. HOLZER

My name is Frank W. Holzer and I live at 221 Vineyard Street, Hot Springs, Ark. I am a member of Local Union No. 454 of the Plumbers and Steamfitters. I have been a member of local 454 for a number of years. In 1951 through 1954, I was a member of local 454 of the United Association and I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job at Pine Bluff, Ark., which was being constructed by BlawKnox Construction Co. for the U.S. Government. I was employed on this project approximately 22 months as a journeyman pipefitter. While I was working on the Pine Bluff job I lived in Hot Springs, Ark., and drove back and forth to the job.

I was not a member of local 706, but I paid $3.50 per week into local 706 as a voluntary contribution to local 706 in order to bear my proportionate share of the cost and expenses of policing the job and maintaining the wages, hours, and working conditions that they had on the job.

I did not pay anything into my home local because local 706 had jurisdiction over the job and we were working under their wages, hours, and working con

ditions that they had established and I felt that it was right that I should pay $3.50 per week into local 706 the same as local 706 men did.

It was strictly understood by me and all the people that I know who were working on the job that the moneys which nonmembers of local 706 paid into local 706 was strictly a voluntary contribution and that no one on the job was under any obligation to pay money into local 706 in order to hold their job.

I paid my $3.50 per week to my foreman. Sometime it was Earl Alexander of Pine Bluff and sometimes it was my brother Richard. Neither one of these foremen ever attempted to secure any contribution from us unless we wanted to pay it in. There were no threats made nor was there anyone discriminated against on the job who did not pay this $3.50 per week into local 706.

I do not know of anyone on the job who was ever discharged or discriminated against for not paying this $3.50 per week into local 706.

I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

FRANK W. HOLZER.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of October 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires September 4, 1963.

C. H. USSERY, Notary Public.

EXHIBIT No. 70

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Garland, ss:

AFFIDAVIT OF GARNETT HAMP SMITH

I live at 306 Combs Street in Hot Springs, Ark. I have been a member of local 454 of the United Association for several years and I was a member of local 454 between 1951 and 1954 when the Pine Bluff Arsenal job was being constructed by Blaw-Knox Construction Co.

I worked on this project for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. as a journeyman pipefitter for approximately 18 months. During the time I was working on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I retained my residence in Hot Springs and drove back and forth to the job every day.

While I was working at the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I made a voluntary contribution in the sum of $3.50 per week into the treasury of local 706. It was strictly understood by me and everyone else that I knew working on the job that the moneys which we paid into local 706 was purely a voluntary contribution and we were under no obligation to do so in order to hold our jobs there or work on this project. We made this voluntary contribution into local 706 because local 706 had jurisdiction over the job and they had the duty and obligation to maintain the wages, hours, and working conditions on the job and we felt that it was nothing but right that we should contribute to help finance the various matters which were undertaken to maintain and improve our working conditions there on the job.

I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

GARNETT HAMP SMITH.

He subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of October 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires September 4, 1963.

C. H. USSERY, Notary Public.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

EXHBIT No. 71

AFFIDAVIT OF O. K. ROGERS

County of Garland, ss:

My name is O. K. Rogers and I live at Mountain Valley, Route 106, Hot Springs, Ark. I am a member of Local Union No. 454 of the Plumbers and Steamfitters. I have been a member of local 454 for a number of years. In 1951 through 1954 I was a member of local 454 of the United Association and I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job at Pine Bluff, Ark., which was being

constructed by Blaw-Knox Construction Co. for the U.S. Government. I was employed on this project approximately 22 months as a journeyman pipefitter. While I was working on the Pine Bluff job I lived in Hot Springs, Ark., and drove back and forth to the job.

I was not a member of local 706, but I paid $3.50 per week into local 706 as a voluntary contribution to local 706 in order to bear my proportionate share of the cost and expenses of policing the job and maintaining the wages, hours, and working conditions that they had on the job.

I did not pay anything into my home local because local 706 had jurisdiction over the job and we were working under their wages, hours, and working conditions that they had established and I felt that it was right that I should pay $3.50 per week into local 706 the same as local 706 men did.

It was strictly understood by me and all the people that I know who were working on the job that the moneys which nonmembers of local 706 paid into local 706 was strictly a voluntary contribution and that no one on the job was under any obligation to pay money into local 706 in order to hold their job. I paid my $3.50 per week to my foreman. Sometimes it was Earl Alexander, of Pine Bluff and sometimes it was George Stewart. Neither one of these foremen ever attempted to secure any contribution from us unless we wanted to pay it in. There were no threats made nor was there anyone discriminated against on the job who did not pay this $3.50 per week into local 706.

I do not know of anyone on the job who was ever discharged or discriminated against for not paying this $3.50 per week into local 706.

I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

O. K. ROGERS.

C. H. USSERY, Notary Public.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of October 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires September 4, 1963.

EXHIBIT No. 72

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

AFFIDAVIT OF KENNETH HERBERT ANDREWS

County of Sebastian, ss:

I am Kenneth Herbert Andrews and I live in Fort Smith, Ark., at the present time. I am now and have been a member of local union No. 29 of the United Association for many years. At the present time I am operating my own business and have been for the last 3 or 4 years.

I remember the Pine Bluff Arsenal job in Pine Bluff, Ark., which Blaw-Knox Construction Co. was constructing for the U.S. Government. I worked on this job as a journeyman pipefitter and as a foreman for approximately 6 months. During the time that I worked on this job I did not pay any assessment into local 706 or any voluntary contribution into local 706. No one on the job told me that I was required to pay any assessment or voluntary contribution, or other moneys into local 706 and I did not do so.

While I was foreman down there on this job I did not collect any money from members in my crew.

I don't remember seeing any money collected from any of our men, but I know positively that I didn't collect any money from them, nor did I turn any money over to any representatives of local 706.

I left the job down there to come back to Fort Smith and assume the duties of business agent of the Fort Smith local.

While I was business agent of the Fort Smith local while the job was going on at Pine Bluff I heard no one complain or say anything about being forced to make any payment of an assessment into local 706 in order to be able to hold their jobs there.

"Red" Yocum, Earl Griffin, Ermon Griffin, or anyone else ever told me that I had to make any payment into local 706 in order to hold my job there and as long as I worked there I was never discriminated against or treated unfairly in any way because of the fact that I didn't make these payments. I left the job of my own free will and accord to come back to Fort Smith to assume the duties of business agent of this local union. During the period of time that I was busi

ness agent of the local union while this job was going on at Pine Bluff I never instructed any of my people that were on this job to make any payments into local 706 and if they were on the job and made the payment, I know nothing about it. I have read the foregoing and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of October 1960.

KENNETH HERBERT ANDREWS.

During

My name is Robert H. Tinsley and I live at Route 4, El Dorado, Ark. 1951 or 1952. I was working at Bauxite as a journeyman pipefitter. I was working out of local 155 in Little Rock, Ark., at that time. There was a strike at Beauxite and I went to the business agent in Little Rock, Mr. Dave Dove, when the strike took place and he told me that I could go to Pine Bluff, Ark., and work on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job there which was being constructed by Blaw-Knox Construction Co. This was in 1951 or 1952, I do not remember which year.

I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job as a journeyman pipefitter approximately 4 or 5 weeks, to the best of my memory at the present time. I worked there until the strike was settled at Bauxite and as we were not getting very much time at the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I went back to the job at Bauxite, Ark. During the time that I was employed by the Blaw-Knox Construction Co. on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I did not pay any working assessment to my foreman to hold my job there. I did not make any voluntary contribution to my foreman or to anyone else to hold my job there.

While I was working on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I paid a $2 a week working assessment into my own local which is local 155 in Little Rock, Ark.

No one told me that I had to pay $3.50 a week to work on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job and I did not pay it. It was my understanding that local 706 had jurisdiction, but I paid nothing into the treasury of local 706 while I was working on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job. I paid my working assessments into my own local, local 155 in Little Rock.

I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

ROBERT H. TINSLEY.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of October 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires June 15, 1961.

EMMA JEAN CALLOWAY,

Notary Public.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

EXHIBIT No. 74

AFFIDAVIT OF E. B. WHEELIS

County of Union, ss:

My name is E. B. Wheelis and I have been a member of local 706 for a number of years. I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job as a journeyman pipefitter along about the middle of the job for about 7 weeks when I left the job and went to a job in Lima, Ohio. While I was working on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I attended a meeting of all the journeymen pipefitters and everyone having anything to do with the pipefitting trade on the Blaw-Knox Construction job. This meeting was held in a park near the site of the job and at that meeting Mr. Earl Griffin, the business agent of local 706, made a speech. Mr. Griffin stated that there had been some misunderstanding about who was to pay the $3.50 working assessment on the job and he made it clear at that time that

no one was required to pay the $3.50 working assessment in order to hold their jobs out there. Although I am a member of local 706, I never paid any of these assessments. I was not discriminated against in any way and held my job there until I quit and went to Lima, Ohio. I also know of several other people who were on this job that did not pay the working assessment. One of these people, whose name is Arnold Black, who lives in El Dorado, also did not pay this $3.50 working assessment. Black nor I were ever discriminated against or in any way told that we had to pay this $3.50 working assessment in order to hold our jobs there at the Pine Bluff Arsenal. I worked in several crews out there under several different foremen and none of the foremen ever told me that I had to pay this in order to hold my job.

I remember at local union meetings in which I have been in attendance that the subject would come up about giving Christmas presents to various and sundry people who were instrumental in helping our business agent place the members of local 706 when there was not enough work in our area to occupy all of our men. On every occasion when this matter has come up when I have been in a local union meeting the membership authorized and directed the business agent or the officers to purchase Christmas presents which were suitable for the particular individual and to send them to them as a token of our appreciation for using our men on the jobs which they might have in their areas. I have been a member of this local union for about 17 years and as long as I have been a member of the local union it has been a custom to give these Christmas presents to various and sundry people who have been of assistance to local 706 each year.

Insofar as the members of local 706 being able to express their opinion on the floor without fear of discrimination, I would like to say that every member of local 706 has the right and the privilege to get up on the floor and express his opinion about any subject or bring up any subject that he desires to on the floor without fear of discrimination. This has happened on many occasions and many people have gotten up on the floor and disagreed with the policies of Earl and Ermon Griffin and have been sent out on jobs the next day or are already on jobs and nothing ever happened with regard to their termination. I have often disagreed with Earl and Ermon Griffin about various and sundry things, but I have never been discriminated against and I know of no one in this local union that has ever been discriminated against for that or any other

reason.

It is because of the relationship that the business agents have in this local union with the business agents of other local unions that we are able to get so many of our men employed in the jurisdiction of other local unions when the other local unions need men to man some project.

I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

E. B. WHEELIS.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of October 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires June 15, 1961.

EMMA JEAN CALLOWAY,

Notary Public.

EXHIBIT No. 75

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Union, ss:

AFFIDAVIT OF WALTER E. YARBROUGH

I am Walter E. Yarbrough and I live at 2402 Maryland Street, El Dorado, Ark. I am a member of local 665 and I have been a member of local 665 for a number of years. I was a member of local union No. 665 of the United Association in 1951 when I went to work on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. which was constructing the arsenal at Pine Bluff for the U.S. Government.

I was sent out on the job by the business agent of local 665 whose name is Ray Chambless. To the best of my memory at the present time, I worked on the job some 3 or 4 months. I remember distinctly when I went out on the job that Mr. Chambless told me that I was not required to pay any money into any