went down on this job I began work as a general foreman. As a general foreman I had several foremen under me and each foreman had some 10 or 12 men under him. When I was sent down on this job from local 155 I was not told that I had to pay any assessment into local 706 or anything else into local 706 in order to hold my job there. No one out of local 706 ever told me that I had to pay an assessment into local 706 in order to hold my job there, although I did make some payments into local 706 while I was there. For a while I paid $3.50 per week into local 706 and then after a while I paid $2.50 per week into local 706. I made these payments into local 706 purely as a voluntary contribution as I understood that I was not required to pay anything into local 706 in order to hold my job there. I remember very distinctly two meetings which were held by the officers of local 706 in a park near the job site there. Mr. J. C. Swailes, of local 706, conducted these meetings as he was the president of local 706, and Mr. Earl Griffin, who was the business agent of local 706, made a talk upon this assessment. Mr. Griffin made the statement there that there had been some talk that people were required to pay money into local 706 in order to hold their job there and he told the entire crowd which consisted of several hundred people that no one was required to pay any money into local 706 in order to maintain their job there at the Pine Bluff Arsenal and that if anyone had paid any money into local 706 with the misunderstanding that they had to in order to hold their job there, that if they would step forward or give him their name and the amount that they had paid he would refund this money if they so desired.

This same statement was made at the next meeting which was held for the purpose of explaining this assessment money and the voluntariness thereof. Everyone that I know of that worked around me strictly understood that any money which they paid into local 706 was a voluntary contribution. I worked on this job from October of 1951 to June of 1953 and there were very few men left on this job at the time that I left the job. During the period of time that I worked on this job I know of several men of local 155, the Little Rock local, who did not make any voluntary contribution into local 706 and they enjoyed the same working privileges as the people of the crew which were working on this job, even though they did not make this payment into local 706. Several of the men I remember distinctly did not make any of these payments and they worked there as long or longer than I did. I don't remember definitely who paid and who didn't pay, but I know that some did pay and some did not. I never kept a list of who paid and who didn't pay and I never reduced my force from any such list. No one ever told me that all the men on the job were required to pay and it was generally understood just the opposite, particularly after the two meetings which Mr. Griffin conducted.

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. [SEAL]

My commission expires August 5, 1963.

RICHARD ISON.

L. WILLENE Cox,

Notary Public.

EXHIBIT No. 84

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

AFFIDAVIT OF ROBERT FILLMORE TARPLEY

County of Sebastian, ss:

I am at the present time a member of Local Union 29 of the United Association and I reside in Fort Smith, Ark.

During 1951 and at other times during the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I worked there for Blaw-Knox Construction Co., all told, for about 2 months as a journeyman pipefitter.

During the time that I worked there I paid $3.50 per week into local 706. I made this as a voluntary contribution and no one told me that I was obligated to do so or in any way forced me to make this contribution. This contribution was made by me into local 706 of my own free will and accord.

I paid this money to my foreman, but my foreman never told me that I had to pay this money in order to hold my job or to maintain my employment there on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job.

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

ROBERT FILMORE TARPLEY.

GLADYS JONES,

Notary Public.

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

My commission expires 25 September 1963.

EXHIBIT No. 85

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Sebastian, ss:

AFFIDAVIT OF CHARLIE WRIGHT

My name is Charlie Wright and I reside at 5210 South 29th Street in Fort Smith, Ark. At the present time I am the business agent of Local 29 of the United Association located in Fort Smith, Ark. I have been the business agent of this local union for approximately 21⁄2 years.

In 1951 through 1954 the Blaw-Knox Construction Co. was constructing an arsenal for the U.S. Government at Pine Bluff, Ark.

They employed several hundred people on this job and they employed a good number of pipefitters on this job. Local 706 of El Dorado, Ark., had jurisdiction over this job, but I worked on this job out of local 29 of Fort Smith, Ark. I have been a member of Local 29 of the United Association in Fort Smith, Ark., for approximately 16 years. I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job for approximately 18 months altogether. Part of the time I was a journeyman pipefitter and part of the time I was a pipefitter foreman. During the time I was a journeyman pipefitter and during the time I was a pipefitter foreman I made a voluntary contribution into local 706 in the sum of $3.50 per week. It was my understanding that this was purely a voluntary contribution and no one had to pay this money into local 706 to maintain their job there or to be able to work on this job.

During the time that I was a foreman on this job I collected some of this money for local 706, but no one ever told me to collect the money from people who were not members of local 706 inasmuch as if they wanted to pay the $3.50 per week they were entitled to do so, but it was not an obligation on them to do so in order to hold their jobs. This was made very plain to me and everyone on the job knew this to be true.

While I was a foreman on this job several of the men who were on strike at the chemical plant were sent out to work in my crew. I believe that I had seven of these people in my crew and I never told any of them that they had to pay any money in order to hold their jobs or to work on this project. To the best of my knowledge, most of them did pay, but they all understood that it was a voluntary contribution on their part.

I can further state that I know of several men on this job who did not make any voluntary contribution into local 706 or any other local union that I know anything about and they were not discriminated against in any way, but worked along the side of the rest of us just as much as any of the other people did. I know of no one being discriminated against in any way because of the fact they did not make this voluntary contribution into local 706.

When I collected this money I turned it over to "Red" Yocum, who was the job steward, who in turn took the money into the local union office. "Red" Yocum or anyone else connected with local union 706 never told me to be sure and collect the money from everyone in my crew. It was just the opposite. I was not told that everyone had to pay.

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

CHARLIE WRIGHT.

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

My commisison expires August 5, 1963.

L. WILLENE Cox, Notary Public.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Crawford, ss:

EXHIBIT No. 86

AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN GUY BROWN

I live in Crawford County, star route 2, out of Van Buren, Ark., and I am at the present time employed by Mechanical Contractors, Inc., which is building the Ohio Rubber plant just outside of Fort Smith, Ark. I have been working here approximately 5 months. In 1951 to 1954 the Blaw-Knox Construction Co. was constructing an arsenal for the U.S. Government at Pine Bluff, Ark., and I worked on this job as a journeyman pipefitter and as a pipefitter foreman for approximately 18 months.

I am a member of Local Union No. 29 of Fort Smith, Ark., of the United Association. I was sent down to work on this job by my local and inasmuch as the Local Union 706 of the United Association had jurisdiction over this job, I paid into local 706 the sum of $2.50 or $3.50 per week, but I don't remember exactly how much. I do remember, however, that all of the members of other locals than 706 were not required to pay any money into local 706, but that this was a voluntary contribution from the people who were not members of local 706. While I was a foreman on the job I had from 10 to 12 men working under me and I never collected any money from these men to turn in to local 706 and I never required them to pay any money into local 706 in order to hold their jobs there. It was understood by everyone concerned on this job that I know anything about that they were not required to pay any amount into local 706 in order to hold their jobs there.

When I first went to work down there I was working with a group of men out of local 155 of Little Rock, Ark., and they told me that they were not paying into local 706, but were paying into local 155. While I was working with them I never saw any of them pay into local 706 and none of them were ever discriminated against or run off the job or in any way treated any differently than any of the rest of us who did make a voluntary contribution into local 706. remember no one being run off the job for not making a voluntary contribution into local 706 and I know of some that did and some that didn't.

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

JOHN GUY BROWN.

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

My commission expires August 5, 1963.

L. WILLENE Cox, Notary Public.

EXHIBIT No. 87

AFFIDAVIT OF HERSHEL SMITH AND HARVEY ATKINS

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Union, ss:

In 1952 we were working for the Lion Chemical Co. at El Dorado, Ark., and we went out on a strike some time during that year. When we went out on a strike we went to local 706, although we were not members thereof, and asked them if they could give us a job while we were out on a strike or help us find employment while we were out on a strike. Someone in the office of local 706 sent us over to Pine Bluff as they were building the Pine Bluff Arsenal at that time and we went to work there. We worked there approximately 3 months before our strike was settled and when our strike was settled we went back to work for Lion Chemical Co. When we went out there and went to work at the Pine Bluff Arsenal job in Pine Bluff, which was being built by Blaw-Knox Construction Co., no one ever told us that we had to pay any money to anybody to hold our jobs or to work on that project. We did contribute to local 706, but on one told us that we had to. We felt like if we were going to work on the job that we would pay into the local union to help bear the expenses of the local union just like the regular members did. The money which we paid into local 706 was strictly a voluntary contribution on our part as we merely wanted to help bear the expenses of the local union in keeping the wages, hours, and working conditions which they had on the project.

Affiant Harvey Atkins states that it is his understanding that everybody that went to work out there on the job while they were on a strike at the Lion Chemical Co. understood that any money they paid into local 706 while they were working on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job was purely a voluntary contribution.

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

HERSHEL SMITH.
HARVEY ATKINS.

FINIS LEE, Jr.,
Notary Public.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of October 1960.

My commission expires February 3, 1963.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

EXHIBIT No. 88

AFFIDAVIT OF FLOYD W. ZYLKS

County of Union, ss:

I am Floyd W. Zylks and I live at 318 West First Street in El Dorado, Ark. I have been a member of local union 706 for approximately 15 years and for the past 5 years I have been a member of the finance committee.

It is the duty of the finance committee to go over the books and records of the local union each month and see what the money that the local union has has been expended for and examine the receipts of the local union and see that they are properly accounted for.

I was a member of the finance committee in January of 1958. The financial statement for the month of January 1958, was signed by Wesley Ford and N. W. Price. I did not sign that particular financial report to the body, but I remember it being discussed. I remember very distinctly the discussion which took place prior to January of 1958 concerning the Christmas gifts which were to be given. The body authorized Christmas gifts for general organizers and other personnel of the United Association who had been instrumental in assisting the business agents of local 706 in securing employment for the members of 706 over the United States and in and around our area. These Christmas gifts were discussed thoroughly at a meeting prior to the time that their purchases were approved.

The financial statement for January 1958, was read on the floor and approved and it contains Christmas gifts in the amount of $4,236.24.

It has always been customary in our local union to give Christmas gifts of this nature to contractors, general organizers, and people who have assisted the business agent in securing employment for the membership. This has always been approved by the membership and the type of gift was usually and generally left up to the business agent. I have had an opportunity to see the financial statement of January 1958, and it was read on the floor on May 6, 1958, and approved by the membership and it is so noted thereon by S. O. Longing, who is the recording secretary of the body. These financial statements have always been open for inspection by any member of the organization and they are discussed on the floor and if anyone desires to inspect them after they are read on the floor and approved or before they are read and approved, they have a perfect right to do so. Anyone who makes the statement that the finance committee has kept the financial statements of this local union 706 from them is not conversant with the facts, to put it mildly, for this committee of which I am a member would be happy to have any member of the organization go over the books with them at the time they make up these statements.

No one has even requested me or any member of the committee, so far as I know, to see any of the statements which we prepare and if they did have they would have been perfectly willing to see them or come in with us and assist us in making up the statement if they so desired.

During the latter part of the Pine Bluff Arsenal job which was constructed by the Blaw-Knox Construction Co. between 1951 and 1954 I worked on this job approximately 12 months. During that time I was a foreman having under me approximately 10 to 12 men at all times. Some of these men were members of local 706 and some of them were not members of local 706. I collected the

$3.50 per week assessments due local 706 under the bylaws of local 706 from the members of local 706. However, I made no attempt to collect any moneys from any person on the job who was not a member of local 706. They were told that if they desired to voluntarily contribute anything into the treasury of local 706 to help finance the policing of this job by local 706 that it would be accepted. At no time was anyone in my crew or anyone that I know of told that it was obligatory on their part to pay $3.50 per week in order to hold their job at the Pine Bluff Arsenal. I made it plain to everybody in my crew that if they were not members of 706, this was purely a voluntary contribution and they could either make it or not. I know of no one who has released, fired, discharged, or run off of the job because they did not pay this $3.50 per week into local 706 and I know several people who did not make this payment. There was no discrimination against anyone on this job who did not make this payment.

When I made the collections from the men in my crew I would give it to "Red" Yocum part of the time and the other part of the time I would bring it in to the office and turn it in to the office and turn it in to the young lady at the office myself.

I remember a meeting held at the Pine Bluff Arsenal job when Earl Griffin specifically told the people present that it was not necessary for them to pay the $3.50 per week into local 706 unless they desired to make a voluntary contribution. He emphatically stated that it was not necessary for them to pay anything into local 706 for them to hold their jobs and if they wanted to make a payment of $3.50 per week or any lesser amount, it would be gratefully accepted in order to help finance the policing of the job.

I know of no one in the local union who has not been able to express himself on any subject that has come before the local union or has not been able to bring up any subject on the floor of the local union and have it thoroughly discussed without being discriminated against by Earl Griffin, Ermon Griffin, or any of the other officers in local union 706. Everyone in the local union has a right and has always exercised the right to get up on the floor and express anything they wanted to and I know of no one who has even been discriminated against in any way, shape, form, or fashion for disagreeing with Earl or Ermon Griffin or any of the other officers in local 706.

I can remember specific instances where men would get up on the floor and take violent opposition to some of the policies of Earl and Ermon Griffin and yet be sent out on jobs just the same as would other men who agreed with the policies of Earl and Ermon Griffin.

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

FLOYD W. ZYLKS.

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

My name is N. W. Price and I live in Camden, Ark., Route 1, Box 666. I have been a member of Local Union No. 706 of the United Association for several years and for the past several years I have been a member of the finance committee of local union 706. I was a member of the finance committee of local 706 in January of 1958 and I prepared and signed the financial report for the month of January 1958.

The financial report for the month of January 1958 contains an item of Christmas gifts in the amount of $4,236.24. The finance committee went over this item and as it has been approved by the body prior to the time the expenditures were made it was listed and approved by the finance committee. This report was taken to the floor and read in full to the membership and it was approved by the membership.