this job for about a week during the absence of Red Yocum, and it was plainly understood by all concerned that the members of local 706 were supposed to pay $3.50 per week working assessment under the bylaws of the local union, but it was also understood that the nonmembers of local 706 were not obligated to make this payment but that they could make a voluntary contribution to local 706 if they so desired. Many of the nonmembers on this job made voluntary contributions, some in the sum of $3.50 per week and some in lesser amounts. These people all understood that they were not obligated to make these payments, as were the members of local 706. However, several of the members of local 706 did not make these working assessment payments and none were ever terminated for not doing so. I know of no person on the job who was terminated for not making this $3.50 per week assessment.

I heard about the meeting held by Mr. Earl Griffin to inform the people who were not members of local 706 that they were not required to make these payments but that the union would accept a voluntary contribution from them if they desired to make same, but I did not attend this meeting.

I know of no one who has ever been discriminated against in local 706 because of any views he took which were opposite to any other views expressed at any meeting or for any other reason.

In September or October of 1955 I cleared into Tulsa local 798 and went to work under the jurisdiction of that local union on the pipeline. I cleared back into local 706 in the latter part of 1956. I did not vote in the local 798 election held in December of 1955 as the men on the job where I was working discussed going to vote and as they all had different ideas about who they were going to vote for and it was discovered that they would merely kill each others vote if they went to vote, we decided not to go and vote in this election.

I have been in fairly regular attendance of local union meetings held by local 706 and remember a discussion coming up on the floor wherein the officers of the local union were authorized to buy Christmas presents for various people. This has been done almost every year that I can think of and it has always been approved by the membership of the local union.

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

GEORGE MORGAN.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of September 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires March 23, 1963.

C. W. DANCER,

Notary Public.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

EXHIBIT No. 55

AFFIDAVIT OF GEORGE WOLFE

County of Union, ss:

My name is George Wolfe, and I reside at El Dorado, Ark. I am a member of local 706 of the United Association of El Dorado, Ark. I have been a member of this local union for many years.

I was an employee of Blaw-Knox Construction Co. on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job during its construction for about 2 years. I was a foreman. During the period of time that I was employed on this project local union No. 706 was collecting $3.50 per week working assessment from the members of local 706. This collection was made in accordance with the bylaws of said local union. Local union 706 also received voluntary contributions from other men on the project who were doing pipefitting work who were not members of local 706, but this money which local 706 received from nonmembers thereof was strictly on a voluntary basis. At no time was anyone, member or nonmember of local 706, told that if they did not pay this $3.50 working assessment they could not work on the project. In fact, the men working on the project were told directly opposite to that. There was a rumor on the job that such men would be required to pay it, but our then business agent, Mr. Earl Griffin, called a meeting of all of the people on the project in a park nearby where the construction work was being performed. I remember that Mr. Jerry Ryan, the general organizer for the international union, was present at this meeting. Mr. Earl Griffin stated flatly that the bylaws of local 706 required that the members of local 706 work

ing on the project pay a $3.50 per week working assessment, but that this did not apply to any person who was not a member of local 706. Mr. Griffin emphatically stated that no one, whether he was a member of local 706 or not, who did not pay this $3.50 a week working assessment would be terminated from the job. Mr. Griffin further stated that if anybody who was not a member of local 706 had paid this $3.50 per week working assessment with the idea that they were required to do so, and if they wanted a refund of this money which they had paid, they could obtain a refund by making an application for it.

Some of the men who were members of local 706 paid their working assessment directly into the office in El Dorado and some of them paid their assessment by the envelope. It is true that the nonmembers of local 706 who made a voluntary contribution to local 706 were not given a receipt therefor as a general rule. However, on many occasions such people were given receipts.

I attend the union meetings of local 706 regularly and it is not true that people are not permitted to express their opinions upon any question which comes upon the floor. It is further not true that people have been denied the right to bring up questions on the floor.

On many occasions long and heated arguments have been held in the union meetings on various questions which have been brought up at the meetings and I know of no one who has ever been discriminated against by any person in local 706 for expressing an opinion at any union meeting.

At no time during the Pine Bluff job did anyone make the statement to me or in my presence that all persons who wanted to keep their job on this project must pay this $3.50 assessment. There were some men in my crew who did not pay the $3.50 assessment and I know that they were not discharged or laid off.

At the union meetings every year it is brought up about giving Christmas presents to various people who have assisted the members of local 706 in the previous year and upon each occasion it has been voted that the business agent secure an appropriate gift for such persons and see that they were delivered to them.

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.

GEORGE WOLFE. 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. 56

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Union, ss:

AFFIDAVIT OF LAWSON REASOR HOLMES

I am Lawson Reasor Holmes and I have been a member of local union 706 of the United Association since March of 1942. I reside in El Dorado, Ark., and have lived here for a number of years. I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job for approximately 23 months as a foreman for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. who was constructing the project there. I started out on the project as a journeyman and worked as a journeyman for approximately 3 or 4 months before I was promoted to foreman.

During the time that I was a foreman on the job I collected the $3.50 per week assessment which the members of local 706 were required to pay under the terms and provisions of the bylaws of local 706. It was strictly understood that the men on the job who were not members of local 706 were not required to pay this assessment. When I was a foreman on the job about half of my crew was local 706 men and the other half was not. The people who were nonmembers of local 706 in my crew understood that they were not required to pay this assessment in order to keep their jobs. Some of them said that they didn't desire to pay it and I told them that I thought that if they wanted to enjoy the benefits that local 706 had gotten for them that they should pay it and help defray some of the expenses of policing the job. After I talked with them all except one went ahead and contributed as a voluntary contribution the sum of $3.50 per week to local 706 even though they were not members thereof. The one man who did not was a fellow by the name of Smith from

Texarkana. This man was about 6 feet, weighed about 170 or 175 pounds and was a blond. He was about 26 or 27 years old at that time. Although Smith did not pay this $3.50 per week he worked on the job and under me without any discrimination in any way, shape, form, or fashion and he was not terminated from the job due to the fact that he did not contribute to local 706 to help defray the expenses of policing this job. At no time did Earl Griffin or "Red" Yocum ever tell me or anyone else in my presence that everyone on the job was required to pay this $3.50 per week or be run off of the job. This is just not true. No one that I know of on the job who did not pay this assessment was ever let out for nonpayment of the assessment, that is, whether they were a member of local 706 or not.

Several years ago I was elected to the executive board of this local union and Earl Griffin was the business agent at that time. I told Earl Griffin at that time that if I had any opinion different from him that I was going to feel free to express it and that if he had any opinion that was different from mine that he should feel free to express it and we would talk all matters of importance to the local union out and thoroughly discuss same and try to reach a conclusion on them.

I have been in fairly regular attendance of the meetings of local 706 up until about 3 months ago. I have not been in regular attendance for the last 3 months due to illness, but while I was in regular attendance at the meetings I always felt free to get up on the floor and express my opinion about any subject which came before the local union or to bring up any subject which I felt like the local union ought to know about and have it thoroughly discussed on the floor. Everyone that I know of in the local union feels exactly the same way about the situation, that they can come to the local union and express their opinions or bring up anything before the local union that they desire to do without fear of being discriminated against in any way, shape, form, or fashion by anyone with whom they might disagree. I know of no one who has been discriminated against because they disagreed with Earl or Ermon Griffin on the floor and I remember on many occasions they have been disagreed with on the floor by various and sundry people. I have not always agreed with Earl and Ermon Griffin about all of the proposals which have come up before the union meeting, but I expressed my opinion on these matters and I felt that I had been dealt with fairly concerning the work in this and other areas. I know of no time that anybody who was a member of local 706 was kept sitting on the bench and men who would come by from other locals seeking work who would be sent out in preference to local 706 men. It has always been Mr. Griffin's idea to send local 706 men out first if there were jobs for them in the area and I know of no discrimination against anyone in this respect.

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

LAWSON REASOR HOLMES.

LOU CRAIG, Notary Public.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of October 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires July 28, 1963.

EXHIBIT No. 57

AFFIDAVIT OF J. R. BURNS

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Union, ss:

My name is J. R. Burns and I live at El Dorado, Ark., and I have been a member of local 706 in El Dorado, Ark., since it was organized. I went to work on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job, which was being constructed by Blaw-Knox Construction Co., and worked there about 13 or 14 months. I believe that I went to work there in about May of 1952 and quit about June or July of 1953. When I first started working upon this job I started out as a journeyman pipefitter and worked 3 or 4 weeks as a journeyman pipefitter and then I was promoted to a pipefitter foreman. During the time that I was a pipefitter foreman I had an average of perhaps 10 pipefitters working under me on this job. I would collect the money that was due from the members of local 706 and turn my collections over to the job steward, "Red" Yocum, to bring into the office. It was understood by all the members of my crew that no one was obligated to pay this $3.50 working assessment in order to hold his job there.

The members of local 706 were obligated to pay this $3.50 per week working assessment because that is a provision of our bylaws. The men who were working on this project, who were not members of local 706, thoroughly understood that they were under no obligation to pay this $3.50 per week to local 706, but they were told that if they desired to pay the $3.50 per week to local 706 in order to police the job and maintain the wages, hours, and working conditions on the job, it would be received as a voluntary contribution.

Some of the men in my crew, who were not members of local 706, did not make these payments. I do not remember who they were or their names at the present time, but I am sure that I would recognize them if I saw them. I do not know of anybody who was discharged, terminated, transferred, laid off, or discriminated against because they did not pay this $3.50 per week, whether they be members or nonmembers. The people who paid the $3.50 and the people who did not pay the $3.50 were treated exactly alike and the men who did not pay the $3.50 per week were not discriminated against in any way.

I remember two meetings which were held in a park near the jobsite in which Mr. Earl Griffin emphatically stated to the hundreds of people at these meetings that the people who belonged to local 706 were obligated to pay the $3.50 a week working assessment under the bylaws of the local union, but that the people who were working on the job who were not members of local union 706 were not obligated to make this payment, but if they desired to make a voluntary contribution toward the expenses of policing the job that it would be received. Mr. Griffin made this statement on two occasions.

No one ever told me or no one ever intimated to me that I was to discharge or have discharged anybody that did not make this $3.50 per week payment. It was understood by everyone that the members of local 706 were obligated to make the payment under the bylaws, but that the nonmembers of local 706 were under no obligation to make this payment. Some of these people paid and some of them did not.

I have always felt free to get up on the floor at the local union meetings and express my opinion on any subject which came before the meeting. I know of no one in the local union who does not feel free to do so. I know of no one in the local union who has been discriminated against for expressing an opinion upon any subject which has come before the local union meeting without fear of being discriminated against or punished for doing so in any way.

Several times that I can remember there have been strong arguments on the floor about various and sundry subjects and the people that took a viewpoint opposite from that of Earl or Ermon Griffin certainly were not discriminated against for expressing their opinion. I have not always agreed with the Griffins myself, but I have never been discriminated against.

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.

J. R. BURNS.

LOU CRAIG,
Notary Public.

STATE OF ARKANSAS

County of Union, ss:

EXHIBIT No. 58

AFFIDAVIT OF J. M. JOHNNY TELFORD

I live 12 miles south of El Dorado, Ark., and am a member of local union 706 of the United Association. I have been a member of this local union since 1941. I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job which was being constructed by BlawKnox Construction Co. I started out as a journeyman pipefitter and worked for 3 or 4 months as a journeyman and then I was promoted to a pipefitter foreman and during the time that I worked as a pipefitter foreman I collected the $3.50 weekly assessment from the members of local 706 who were working in my crew. I had an average of 10 to 12 men in my crew. All of my crew was not composed of members of local 706, but were either members of other local unions or were not members of any union. It was understood and I explained to

the men who were not members of local 706 that they were not obligated to pay the $3.50 per week assessment, but that the members of local union 706 were obligated to pay the $3.50 per week assessment because of the bylaws of the local union. I told the men that were not members of local 706 that if they wanted to make a voluntary contribution to local 706 to pay the expenses of policing the job and maintaining and securing better hours, wages, and working conditions, that such money would be accepted by me to turn over to the local union. It was definitely understood that any moneys which they paid would be in the form of a voluntary contribution. To the best of my memory, all of the members of my crew paid the $3.50 a week into local union 706. As long as I was out on the job "Red" Yocum, Earl Griffin, or no one else ever told me to collect the $3.50 from each man in my crew or to see that they did not work. It was not necessary that anybody working in my crew pay the $3.50 per week in order to hold their jobs there.

I was working nights at the time that they had the meetings over at the park to get this matter straightened out among all of the people on the job and I did not attend the meetings because I was working. I do know that the men who attended the meetings strictly understood that they were not required to pay any money into local 706 in order to maintain or hold their jobs there at the BlawKnox Construction Co., which was building this project.

I have been in fairly regular attendance at the local union meetings and I have always been able to get up on my feet and express any opinion which I may have, whether it agreed with the opinion of someone else or not. Everybody in this local union has always been able to get up and express their opinion at the local union meetings and there have been some strong arguments in the local union meetings among the membership over various questions which have arisen. I know of no one who has been discriminated against in any way for expressing an opinion or voting contra to the way or to the thinking of Earl Griffin or Ermon Griffin or anybody else in the local union.

I can remember occasions when the purchasing of Christmas gifts to give to various people who had assisted in the employment of members of local 706 on jobs around the country came up. The membership always voted to send the Christmas presents to such people as a token of appreciation of the membership for helping them to secure employment on various jobs around the country. The membership always approved of this practice and, so far as I know, there was no dissent voiced on the floor when this matter would come up.

I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. M. "JOHNNY" TELFORD.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of October 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires July 28, 1963.

LOU CRAIG,
Notary Public.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

EXHIBIT No. 59

AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN HENRY ARMER

County of Union, ss:

I am John Henry Armer and I live in El Dorado, Ark., and I have been a member of local union 706 for a number of years. During the Pine Bluff Arsenal job in Pine Bluff, Ark., I was employed by the Blaw-Knox Construction Co. which was doing this construction work for the U.S. Government. I worked there about 16 or 17 months during this construction. After I had been there about 2 months I was made a foreman. As foreman I had about an average of 10 to 12 men under my jurisdiction and supervision. During this job I collected the assessment money for local 706 from the members and I asked all the other men in my crew who were not members of local 706 if they wanted to make a donation to local 706. Some of the men in my crew who were not members of local 706 would make a voluntary contribution to local 706 and each man in my crew understood thoroughly that it was a voluntary contribution. I remember distinctly that there were two men in my crew, one by the name of Branton and another by the name of Young, who were from Beaumont, Tex., who did not wish to contribute to local 706 and they worked on the project as long as anybody else. As a matter