of fact, these men worked until the job went on a 40-hour week and at that time they quit because they could go to other jobs and work on overtime.

At no time did "Red" Yocum, Earl Griffin, or anyone else tell me to collect money from everybody in my crew and if anybody didn't pay to see that they were discharged. Such was not the case. If the people did not desire to make a voluntary contribution who were not members of local 706, that was perfectly all right and no one ever said anything to them about it or criticized them or discriminated against them in any way for not making this voluntary contribution. It is an absolute fact that no one had to make this payment in order to work at Blaw-Knox. I did not attend either one of the meetings that were held in the park to discuss this situation, but I have heard what was said at these meetings.

I have always felt free to express my opinion on any subject that has ever come before the local union meeting and I have always felt that I had the right to get up and bring anything before the local union meeting that I desired to do. I feel that I can express my opinion, regardless of whether or not Earl or Ermon Griffin or anyone else agrees with it, and I know of no one in the local union who doesn't feel the same way. I don't know of a soul who has ever been discriminated against by Earl or Ermon Griffin for disagreeing with them or for any other reason.

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

JOHN HENRY ARMER.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of October 1960.

I went to work on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. as a journeyman pipefitter sometime in 1952, and worked there, to the best of my memory, approximately 18 months. At the time that I went to work at the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I did not belong to local 706 or any other local union in the United Association. As a matter of fact, I did not belong to any union at the time that I went to work on this job. Mr. Earl Griffin sent me up on the job and told me to make my application up there, which I did, and I was hired as a journeyman pipefitter. I was not told that I had to pay any initiation fees, dues, working assessment, or anything else in order to go to work up there. However, I did not become a member of local 706 until October 7, 1952, at which time I paid my initiation fees and have been paying my dues regularly into local 706 since that time. During the time that I was working on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job before I became a member of local 706, I paid a $3.50 a week working assessment to local 706 as a voluntary contribution. No one told me that I had to make this payment into local 706 in order to keep my job or if I didn't make this payment that I would be terminated. I was sent up there without being obligated in any way, shape, form, or fashion to local union 706.

While I was employed on the Blaw-Knox job I attended two meetings held at the park which were called by Mr. Earl Griffin to explain to the people on the job that they were not obligated to pay the $3.50 working assessment which was made upon the members of local 706. I know of some men on the job who paid this $3.50 per week into local 706 who were not members of local 706, but they did so as a voluntary contribution of their own free will. I also know of other people who did not pay this voluntary contribution who were not members of local 706 who worked on the job throughout the time that I was there and they were never discriminated against, threatened, terminated, or treated any differently than the other people on the job. I remember specifically one man by the name of Pat O'Neal, of Kansas City, Mo., who never made any of these assessments, and he was not terminated, discriminated against, or treated any differently than any other men on the job who did make these

voluntary contributions. I remember a meeting which was held in a park near the jobsite in which Earl Griffin emphatically stated to all people present, and there were several hundred people present, that no one on the job was required to pay the $3.50 per week working assessment in order to hold their job and only the men of local 706 were required to pay this assessment and they were required to pay it under the terms and provisions of the bylaws. They were not required to pay it in order to hold their jobs at the Pine Bluff Arensal. I know of another meeting which was held at the same place when the rumor persisted that everybody was required to make this payment and Mr. Griffin at that time made another speech at the same place and emphatically told the people that no one on the job was required to pay this $3.50 working assessment; that if the people who were not members of 706 desired to make a voluntary contribution of $3.50 per week or any other sum that it would be accepted and would be used to pay the expenses of policing the job to see that the wages, hours, and working conditions were bettered.

I have always felt like I could express my opinion on the floor upon any subject which was under discussion or bring up any subject on the floor. I know of no one in the local union who does not feel the same way because I remember we have had some very strong arguments on the floor about various and sundry matters. Sometimes I agreed with the Griffins and sometimes I did not agree with the Griffins and I have always felt free to express my opinion, and have expressed my opinion, regardless of how the Griffins might have felt. I have never been discriminated against by the Griffins or anyone else in this local union and know of no one else who has been discriminated against in this local union because of any views that they might have expressed on the floor at a regular meeting or at any other time, nor do I know of anyone else who has been discriminated against for any reason whatsoever.

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

FRED MURPHY.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of October 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires January 21, 1961.

W. A. SPEER, Notary Public.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

EXHIBIT No. 61

AFFIDAVIT OF RALPH KELLY

County of Union, ss:

My name is Ralph Kelly. I live at El Dorado, Ark., and I have been a member of local union 706 of El Dorado, Ark., since March of 1942. I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. and I started out on this job as a journeyman. I worked as a journeyman for approximately 6 weeks and then I was promoted to foreman. I had approximately 10 men in my crew while I was a foreman on this job. I was the one who collected the $3.50 per week assessment from all local 706 men and other men who wanted to pay any moneys into the treasury of local 706. I did not tell anyone that they would have to pay this amount into local 706 in order to hold their jobs and no one ever told me that I was to collect $3.50 per week from the men in my crew or to discharge them. "Red" Yocum or Earl Griffin never made any such statement to me and I collected the money if the men wanted to pay me and if they didn't want to pay me, they worked just like anyone else. I remember one man specifically from Fort Smith who did not pay the $3.50 per week. He did not make any voluntary contribution and he worked there just like anybody else. As a matter of fact, this man was there when I left the job. I do not remember this man's name at the present time. This man was a tall, slim fellow, about 45 years of age and I am sure that I could identify him if I saw him again. I know of no one who was working on the Blaw-Knox job who was terminated, run off, or discharged because they did not pay this $3.50 per week. It as understood by all men on the job that they did not have to pay this money in order to hold their jobs. It is in the bylaws of local 706 that the members of local 706 when they are working pay $3.50 per week working assessment in addition to their dues. However, if they do not pay that money, it is up to the business agent of the local union to collect it and not up to the people or foremen on the job to see that they

pay it.

I know of no one who is a member or nonmember of local 706 on any job who has ever been terminated for not paying this assessment.

I know nothing about a meeting which was held to discuss this payment. I did not attend any such meeting, but I knew that no one had to pay the $3.50 per week working assessment who did not want to. While I was collecting this money for local 706 everybody who paid me any money received a receipt, regardless of whether or not he was a member of local 706 or a member of some other local union of the United Association, a nonunion member, or belonged to some other local other than in the United Association. When I collected this money I took it to "Red" Yocum, the job steward, who in turn took it to the union headquarters.

I have been in regular attendance at the meetings of local union 706 when I have been in town and I know of no one who has not been permitted to get up and make any statement he desired or express any opinion that he desired on any subject which was on the floor for discussion. I know of no one who was ever denied the right or privilege to bring upon the floor for discussion any subject which they so desired. I know of no one ever being discriminated against by Earl or Ermon Griffin or anyone else in local 706 for disagreeing with them. I have often gotten up on the floor and expressed my opinion contra to the opinion expressed by either Earl or Ermon Griffin and I have never been discriminated against in any way by Earl or Ermon Griffin, or any other officer or member of local union 706. The vast majority of the union members all know-as a matter of fact, all of the union members all know that they can get up on the floor and make any statement that they so desire and not be discriminated against in any way.

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

RALPH KELLY.

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

LOU CRAIG, Notary Public.

My commission expires July 26, 1963.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

EXHIBIT No. 62

AFFIDAVIT OF HOMER ANDRESS

County of Union, ss:

My name is Homer Andress and I have been a member of local 706 since 1942. I was an employee of Blaw-Knox on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job during 1951 and 1952. Part of the time I was a journeyman pipefitter and the last part I was a foreman over the journeymen pipefitters. I had approximately 8 to 10 men in my crew over which I was a foreman. While I was a foreman on this Pine Bluff Arsenal job I collected the $3.50 weekly assessment from the local 706 men. However, it was strictly understood by the members in my crew who were not members of local 706 that they were not obligated to pay the $3.50 a week working assessment as were the men in 706 under bylaws of 706 and all of the men in my crew who were not members of 706 understood this implicitly. I had men in my crew from local 19 in Fort Smith, local 155 in Little Rock, and local 665 in Pine Bluff. Some of these men voluntarily paid the $3.50 and they realized when they paid it that it was a voluntary contribution to local 706 and that they were under no obligation to pay it. No one in my crew was ever discharged for not paying local 706 this $3.50 weekly assessment and I know of no one on the job who was ever discharged, terminated, or otherwise eliminated from the job for not paying this weekly assessment. I remember distinctly that some of the men in my crew did not pay the $3.50 per week working assessment and they were never eliminated from the job or any action taken against them whatsoever, inasmuch as this was a voluntary contribution. I do not remember the names of these men at the present time and I have attempted to search my records to find out if I could ascertain the names of these men, but I have been unable to do so.

However, I do know that some of the men in my crew did not pay the $3.50 per week and nothing was ever said or done about it inasmuch as it was their privilege not to. I do remember very distinctly that Lance Grey, who was a general foreman on the job, paid to me $2.50 per week to be turned in to the El

Dorado local No. 706. Lance Grey specifically understood that he was not required to pay any amount into local 706, but that the $2.50 he was paying amounted to a voluntary contribution. I received Lance Grey's money and talked with him about it and I know that he understood this perfectly well. There was also another man in my crew, whose name I believe was W. C. Elam. He was a journeyman. He was also a member of the Pine Bluff local and he only paid the sum of $2.50 a week as he fully understood that he was not required to pay the $3.50 per week as were the members of local 706, but that he could pay anything that he wanted to or nothing and he chose to pay as a voluntary contribution into local 706 $2.50 per week. The money that I collected from Lance Grey and all the other members of my crew or anybody else from whom I collected money received a receipt for this money. There were no exceptions whatsoever. Whether they be a member of local 706 or not, they would get a receipt for any moneys which they paid to me to turn over to local 706.

I remember that they had a meeting of the men working on this job at the park which was held to get certain matters straightened out concerning this voluntary contribution and the 706 assessment. However, I did not attend this meeting and do not know who was there or what was said.

I wish to further state that no one ever told me "Red" Yocum or Earl Griffin or anyone else that every man on the job was to pay a $3.50 working assessment or they were to be run off the job. Nothing like that was ever said in any of the meetings which I attended and no one ever told me anything like that and nothing like that ever occurred on the job. I never turned any money over to "Red" Yocum to bring into the local union hall. All the money which I collected I turned over to George Wolfe to bring into the union hall. I never brought any of this money into the union hall personally, but always turned over what I had to George Wolfe.

I was in fairly regular attendance in the membership meetings of local 706 and I remember several meetings which I attended around Christmastimes of the various years wherein someone on the floor would make a motion that the officers of the local union would be requested to get Christmas presents for various people who had assisted the membership of local 706 in securing employment over the United States and in and about the local area. I do not remember this matter ever coming up when it was not passed and I do not remember anybody ever opposing it on the floor because it was merely an expression of gratitude of the membership for certain people assisting them during the previous year in securing employment on various jobs.

It is not true that people are discriminated against for making any statements which they so desire at union meetings. I have had more disagreements with Earl Griffin than anyone that I know of and I have had some pretty hot arguments with him about certain things I disagreed with him about, but he has never discriminated against me with regard to employment. I do not know of anyone else that he has discriminated against and every man in this local union can get up on the floor and express his views about anything which he desires to talk about or bring anything up on the floor which he desires to have discussed without fear of being discriminated against. I have always felt free to do this, I have done it, and I have never been discriminated against, and I know of no one else in this local union who has been discriminated against for this reason or for any other reason.

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

HOMER ANDRESS.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of October 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires January 17, 1963.

ANNIE L. LEE,
Notary Public.

EXHIBIT No. 63

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Union, ss:

AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN W. GARLINGTON

My name is John W. Garlington and I have been a member of local 706 for many years. In 1952 I began working on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job for BlawKnox Construction Co. I was a foreman of the material warehouses. Most of

the time I had 10 men under me to perform this work. I would collect the weekly assessment of $3.50 per week from local 706 members who were obligated to pay this working assessment under the bylaws of the local union. I was told by Mr. Yocum, the job steward, to give receipts to local 706 members only as the money paid by members other than 706 was a voluntary contribution on the part of such men. Some of the men under my jurisdiction were not local 706 men and I made it clear to them that they were not required to pay this $3.50 a week working assessment as local 706 men were, but if they wanted to volunteer this amount or any other amount, it would be accepted. No one ever told me or told anyone else in my presence that all persons working under the jurisdiction of the Plumbers and Steamfitters had to pay this $3.50 per week working assessment or they would be eliminated from the job. I remember one man by the name of B. A. "Shorty" Maples, who was not a member of local 706, who was working under my jurisdiction, that never did pay this $3.50 or any other amount into local 706. This man was not eliminated from the job. There was one other fellow in my crew, whose name I do not remember, who did not pay anything into local 706 while he was working under my jurisdiction and he was not eliminated from the job.

I remember Mr. Earl Griffin, the then business agent of local 706, calling a meeting at a park near the Pine Bluff Arsenal jobsite and explaining to the several hundred people present that only 706 men were required to pay this working assessment of $3.50, but that if anyone else desired to make a voluntary contribution, it would be accepted. It is my understanding that this meeting was called to stop the rumors that everyone on the job was required to pay the $3.50 working assessment. Mr. Earl Griffin further stated at this meeting that if anyone had paid the $3.50 into local 706 with the understanding that they were required to do so to hold the job, that if they would make an application for a refund that any moneys that they had paid into local 706 would be refunded to them.

I have been in attendance of the meetings of local 706 fairly regularly and know of no reason that anyone who was a member of local 706 and entitled to sit in the meetings could not get up on the floor and express their opinions about any subject which came before the meeting or about any subject which they desired to bring before the meeting.

As far back as I can remember, every year the subject of local 706 giving Christmas presents to various persons would come before the meeting and it is my recollection that upon each occasion the officers of the union were authorized to purchase Christmas presents for various persons who were in a position to assist the membership of local 706 in securing employment.

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.

JOHN W. GARLINGTON. Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 28th day of September 1960, at the courthouse in Union County, Ark.

My name is Keith Ripley, and I live at El Dorado, Ark. I am a member of local 706 and was a foreman on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. when the Pine Bluff Arsenal was under construction.

Some months ago I was contacted by a Mr. Duffy and he asked me to come to his hotel room to give a statement. I went to Mr. Duffy's hotel room and after he showed me his credentials he asked me to sign an affidavit which he had already prepared. I refused to sign this affidavit unless he would make certain changes therein. After Mr. Duffy made some changes in the affidavit and after he told me that I would be subpenaed to Washington if I did not sign it, I signed the affidavit. Mr. Duffy did not give me a copy of the affidavit.