local union and no one ever asked me to pay any money into any local union as a working assessment. No one ever approached me to pay any money and it was my understanding that only people who wished to voluntarily pay money into local 706 did so. I never paid any money into local 706 while I was working on the job and I quit the job voluntarily to go to Paducah, Ky., to work. They were working 6 days a week, 10 hours a day, on the job in Kentucky, and I went up there because of the longer hours. I was not terminated when I left. I just left the job and went to Kentucky. I don't know how long they kept me on the payroll there after I left. I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. WALTER E. YARBROUGH. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of October 1960. [SEAL] My commission expires April 8, 1961. HOMER C. WALTON, Notary Public. EXHIBIT No. 76 AFFIDAVIT OF FINIS LEE, JR. STATE OF ARKANSAS, County of Union, ss: My name is Finis Lee, Jr., and I live at El Dorado, Ark. In 1952 I was working for the Lion Chemical Co. when the employees of Lion Chemical Co. went on strike. I went to the headquarters of local 706 of the United Association in El Dorado and asked for employment. I was sent out to the Pine Bluff Arsenal job in Pine Bluff, Ark., and I went to work for Blaw-Knox as a journeyman pipefitter. While I was working there I was never required to pay any assessment or any money into local 706 and did not make any payments into local 706. Once in a while someone would come around with a petition to take up a donation for someone who was sick or something like that, but that is the only payment that I made while out on the job. I was never told that I had to pay anyone or any money to hold my job out there at Blaw-Knox and I never did make any payments into local 706 for the privilege of working on this job. I worked out on this job approximately 3 or 31⁄2 months until the strike was settled at Lion Chemical Co. and then I went back to work for Lion Chemical Co. I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of October 1960. [SEAL] My Commission expires July 28, 1963. FINIS LEE, Jr. LOU CRAIG, Notary Public. EXHIBIT No. 77 STATE OF ARKANSAS, County of Union, ss: AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES WILLIE GARRETT My name is James Willie Garrett and I live at Norphlet, Ark. I was employed by the Lion Chemical Co. in 1952 when the employees out there went on a strike and I was a member of local 706 of the United Association at that time while working at the Lion Chemical Co. When the employees of the Lion Chemical Co. went on a strike I went out to the Pine Bluff Arsenal job and went to work for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. as a journeyman pipefitter. I worked out there approximately 32 months until the Lion Chemical Co. called me back to my regular job after the strike was over. While I was out there I paid the $3.50 per week working assessment which is provided for in the bylaws of the local union. However, it was my understanding that the people who were on the job who were not members of local 706 were not required to pay this assess ment, but if they desired to make a voluntary contribution to local 706, they would be permitted to do so. Mr. Harry Tanner was my foreman on this job and I remember Mr. Tanner repeatedly telling the men in the crew who were not members of local 706 that they did not have to pay this assessment unless they so desired and if they so desired it would be a voluntary contribution on their part. At no time did I hear anyone say that the nonmembers of local 706 were required to make this payment in order to hold their jobs or to keep from being discriminated against. The opposite of that is true. When I attended the local union meetings, if I had anything to say, I felt free to say it regardless of who might agree with it or disagree with it. I was not fearful of being discriminated against for disagreeing with anybody in the local union. I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. JAMES WILLIE GARRETT. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of October 1960. [SEAL] My commission expires November 8, 1962. ERIS M. LONG, Notary Public. EXHIBIT No. 78 AFFIDAVIT OF J. K. ANDRESS, R. E. GAY, AND J. J. BAILEY STATE OF ARKANSAS, County of Union, ss: We wish to state that we are all residents of El Dorado, Ark., and in 1952 we were employed by the Lion Chemical Co. In 1952 the employees of the Lion Chemical Co. went on a strike and we came to local 706 to see if we could secure employment while we were out on a strike. We were told to go over to the Blaw-Knox Construction job at the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Pine Bluff, Ark., and that we could perhaps secure work there. We went over and went to work. At no time were we ever told that we had to pay any money into local 706 for the privilege of working on this Pine Bluff Arsenal job. However, each of us did pay the sum of $3.50 per week into local 706 as a voluntary contribution. We were told specifically that we did not have to make this payment, but we all wanted to make this payment into local 706 to help defray the expenses of the local, inasmuch as we were working on this job we felt that we should pay as much as the regular members of local 706 because we were getting as much benefit out of the job as were the members of local 706 and we felt that it was nothing but right, but that we bear our just share of the expenses. We have read the foregoing affidavit and it is true and correct to the best of our knowledge and belief. J. K. ANDRESS. R. E. GAY. J. J. BAILEY Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of October 1960. [SEAL] My commission expires February 3, 1963. FINIS LEE, Jr., Notary Public. STATE OF ARKANSAS, EXHIBIT No. 79 AFFIDAVIT OF DALE C. WEBB County of Union, ss: My name is Dale C. Webb and I live at Norphlet, Ark. I am at the present time employed by Monsanto Chemical Co. just outside of El Dorado, Ark. In 1952 I was working for Lion Chemical Co. when the employees of Lion Chemical Co. went out on a strike and I went to work over on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. I worked over there about 3 months. During the time that I worked there I paid $3.50 per week to the El Dorado local of the United Association, which local is No. 706. I have made a statement concerning this matter before which has been sent to Washington before the committee, but I was not asked in that statement whether or not I made this $3.50 payment to local 706 in order to hold my job at the Pine Bluff Arsenal. I wish to state at this time that the $3.50 per week which I paid to the El Dorado local of the plumbers and steamfitters was purely voluntary on my part and that I was under no obligation to pay it. However, I, like many of the other men, felt we should pay as much as the regular members of local 706 in order to bear our just share of the expenses. No one ever told me that I had to pay this $3.50 per week in order to hold my job and I was advised that it was not necessary for me to pay this $3.50 per week or any other sum as long as I worked at the Pine Bluff Arsenal job unless I wanted to. I wanted to pay this $3.50 per week, I thought it was right that I should pay it then, and I think it was right that I should pay it now on a voluntary basis. I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. DALE C. WEBB. JAMES D. COOK, Notary Public. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of October 1960. [SEAL] My commission expires May 3, 1961. EXHIBIT No. 80 STATE OF LOUISIANA, Parish of East Carroll, ss: AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES M. LAMB My name is James M. Lamb. I live at 807 Fourth Street, Lake Providence, La. I am a journeyman steamfitter and a welder. I have been a member of the United Association since 1952 for many years. I joined the United Association through local 618, Greenville, Miss. I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. in 1952 and 1953 for approximately 8 months. My foreman was Fred Daniels of Camden, Ark., and my general foreman was George Stewart. The work I performed and the crew I was assigned to worked in building 51 for the above foreman. Aside from my foreman, Mr. Daniels, and general foreman, Mr. Stewart, I remember Mr. H. Nix working with me in the same crew. I remember local 706 men paying their assessments into local 706 according to their constitution. also remember none of us who were outside of local 706 being allowed to pay any assessment. The only way our foreman would accept our money was as a voluntary contribution. No one in my crew was forced to pay any money in order to hold his job on the Blaw-Knox project. I was not discriminated against or terminated because of the assessment issue. I left the same time Mr. H. Nix was leaving and I left voluntarily to go to a job with better pay. Mr. Nix and I both went to Woodriver, Ill., where the wage rate was considerably more than local 706. I know of no one leaving Blaw-Knox because they refused to pay a working assessment. It was just opposite. The local union officers and Blaw-Knox was trying to keep all the pipefitters on the Pine Bluff Arsenal. It was difficult for us to get a termination and leave for something better. I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. JAMES M. LAMB. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of October 1960. [SEAL] EDNA BISHOP BROCK, Clerk of Court and Ex Officio Notary Public. My commission expires June 1, 1964. STATE OF ARKANSAS, EXHIBIT No. 81 AFFIDAVIT OF ERNEST SAMUEL PEPPERS My name is Ernest Samuel Peppers, and I live at Route 4, Box 78A, El Dorado, Ark. I am the present president of Local Union 706 of the United Association and in such capacity I conduct all of the local union meetings. I have been president of local union 706 since 1957. I was elected to take this position upon the death of Mr. J. C. Swailes, who was the president and acting business agent at the time of his death. Prior to the time that I was elected president of local union 706 I was on the finance committee of local union 706. As a member of the finance committee we went over the books and records of the local union and made a monthly report to the membership. These monthly reports were read to the membership and approved when they were presented. I remember distinctly that if there were any questions concerning these financial reports that they were discussed fully on the floor and every person was permitted to have his say and examine the financial reports in the most minute detail if they so desired. I do not remember but one person asking me any questions concerning the financial report and that was a fellow by the name of Torrence and that has been several years ago. I told him the information which he wanted was in the audit report which was one file in the office and it was available to him there. If anyone had asked me to give them any details concerning the financial report, I would have been glad to have done so, but no one while I was a member of the finance committee has ever asked me for any information other than that which was presented to the floor. While I was on the finance committee and while I have been in local 706 I remember distinctly that the local union has discussed various Christmas gifts to be given to general organizers and other people who have assisted the membership of local 706 in securing employment. This has been a general practice of local union 706 for a number of years. Since I have been president of local 706 and have been in charge of the meetings of this local union, I have given everyone an opportunity to get up on the floor and express himself in any manner which he chose to do. Every person in this local union has the right to get up on the floor and bring up anything that he has on his mind or express any opinion that he has on his mind without fear of discrimination or recrimination and I know of no one in this local union who has ever been discriminated against because they have gotten up on the floor of the local union and have spoken their minds, whether or not they agree with me, Earl Griffin, Ermon Griffin, or any of the other officers of this local union. On some occasions members have gotten up at the wrong order of business and attempted to bring up some subject, but he was told that he was out of order at the present time but would be given an opportunity to take up his particular subject under the good and welfare of the local union. No person was ever prohibited from expressing himself or his opinion in the local union and has not been since I have been president, and I know of no one that was ever prohibited from doing so before I became president. I did not work on the Pine Bluff job for at that time I was working for the Loomis Co. at Lion Refinery here at El Dorado, Ark. 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 11th day of October 1960. [SEAL] My commission expires October 1, 1961. ERNEST SAMUEL PEPPERS. WANDA WASHINGTON, Notary Public. EXHIBIT No. 82 AFFIDAVIT OF HERB E. BAYER STATE OF KANSAS, County of Shawnee, ss: I am Herb E. Bayer and I am the field project manager for Blaw-Knox Co., presently employed by said company on a construction project near Topeka, Kans. I was also the field project manager for Blaw-Knox Co. at the time we were constructing the so-called Pine Bluff Arsenal near Pine Bluff, Ark., for the U.S. Government. This project was under construction during the years 1951 to 1954. During the period of time this project was under construction we were almost constantly in need of qualified pipefitters and competent welders. While this project was under construction there were several strikes by the various craft unions over one thing or another, and there were many weeks during the course of this job that the men did not work due to inclement weather. Also, during the course of this project, men would quit for one reason or another after they received their paycheck and never say anything to us about not coming back to work. Upon many occasions men would come to the project, apply for employment, pass their security check, and then go seek a place for themselves and families to live. As Pine Bluff is a relatively small community, many of these men could not find accommodation and would move on to another town to seek work on another project so that they would be able to work where they could find suitable accommodations for themselves and their families. They would move on without notifying us that they were not going to return to the project to work. The above various classifications of people would be on our list of employees for various periods of time until we terminated them. We had a periodic check of our personnel and if a man had not been on the job for 2 weeks or so when these periodic checks were made, then such man would be terminated and dropped from our list of employees. From the above it will be seen that a list of employees of the Blaw-Knox Co. would not be an accurate list of the employees who were actually working on the project each week. As an example, at the peak of the project, we had issued in the neighborhood of some 22,000 badges for employees to work on the job, while at the peak of the job we had in the neighborhood of only 6,700 employees. These figures are not more than approximately 10 percent off either way, and I have no way to give the exact figures as the records for a job performed that far back are not available. We would carry such "absentee" employees on our employee records for a reasonable length of time in hopes that they would return to the job on the project, and it was only when it became evident that they were not going to return that we dropped them as employees of Blaw-Knox. I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. HERB E. BAYER. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of October 1960. [SEAL] My commission expires March 8, 1962. J. W. EMMONS, Notary Public. EXHIBIT No. 83 STATE OF ARKANSAS, County of Sebastian, ss: AFFIDAVIT OF RICHARD ISON I am a member of Local Union 155 of the United Association in Little Rock, Ark. At the present time I am working in Fort Smith, Ark., on the Ohio rubber plant. My job here is superintendent for Mechanical Contractors, Inc. I have been working on this job approximately since June of 1960. In 1951 I was a member of local 155 of Little Rock, Ark., and I went down on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job and began to work for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. which was building the Pine Bluff Arsenal for the U.S. Government. When I |