During the time that I was a foreman on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job it was understood by me that anyone who was not a member of local 706 was not under an obligation to pay the $3.50 working assessment but that the other pipefitters and plumbers who were working on the job could make a voluntary contribution if they so desired. Some of the people made a voluntary contribution and some of them did not. I know of no one who was discharged, laid off or terminated from the Pine Bluff Arsenal job because they did not pay this $3.50 whether they were members of local 706 or nonmembers.

I remember going to a meeting which was called for the plumbers and pipefitters who were working on the project at a park near the project but I do not remember what was said at this meeting.

No one ever told me or ever made a statement in my presence that all the men on the job working in the steamfitters' jurisdiction would be required to pay this $3.50 per week working assessment.

I do not recall the names of these men but I know some of the men working on the job did not pay this $3.50 per week and they were never terminated.

I have been in attendance at local union meetings when the subject of Christmas presents came up, and the body always voted to authorize the officers of the local union to make certain Christmas gifts to various people.

I have always been able to express my opinion upon any matter which came before the local union, as well as any one else who attended the meetings of the local union. I know of no one who has ever been discriminated against at a meeting for expressing his opinion contra to the opinion someone else in the local union might have. I do not know of any discrimination of any officers of the local union against the membership.

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

KEITH RIPLEY.

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

My commission expires June 15, 1961.

EMMA JEAN CALLOWAY,

Notary Public.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Union, ss:

EXHIBIT No. 65

AFFIDAVIT OF H. C. BURNS

I am a member of local 706 and during 1952 and 1953, was a foreman on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job in Pine Bluff, Ark. I was working for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. which was building the project for the Government. During the time I was foreman I collected money from the men in my crew for the $3.50 assessment from members of local 706. It was understood by me and all the men under me that the nonmembers were not required to pay this assessment but that if they desired to make a voluntary contribution to local 706 it would be accepted. Some of the men in my crew made the voluntary contribution and some of them did not. At the present time I cannot remember any names of any men who did or did not make this contribution who was not a member of local 706.

I did not attend the meeting which was held by Mr. Earl Griffin to explain that the nonmembers of local 706 were not required to pay this working assessment.

At no time on this job do I recall anyone being let out because of the fact that they had not made this $3.50 per week payment. This applies to both members of local 706 and people who were working on the job who were not members of local 706.

I have been in fairly regular attendance at the local union meetings and have always been under the impression that anybody could make any statement they wanted to upon any question which came before the meetings. I have never refrained from expressing my views or opinion upon any question before the membership at any meeting regardless of the fact that my views might not have agreed with the views of someone else. I know of no one who has been discriminated against by the officers of local 706 for expressing their views on the floor or on any question which might arise or for any other reason.

I remember that at some of the meetings that I attended a discussion would come up about giving Christmas presents to various people who were in a position to help members of local 706 obtain employment. Every time this question came up while I was in attendance it was always favorably received and the officers were authorized to give these Christmas presents to such persons. I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

H. C. BURNS.

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

My name is R. J. Garrett and I reside at El Dorado, Ark. I have been a member of local 706 for a number of years and was employed on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job as a pipefitter foreman.

Under the rules of local 706 the members of local 706 when they work a full week are required to pay a working assessment of $3.50 per week into the local union. This has been true for a good many years and is still true.. During the construction of the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I was a foreman for the Blaw-Knox Construction Co. and made the collection of this assessment from the men under my supervision. At no time were any of the men who were not members of local 706 told that they had to pay the $3.50 assessment each week or that they would be terminated. No one told me or made any such statement in my presence that money was to be collected from the nonmembers of local 706 unless such people voluntarily wished to contribute to local union 706. Local union 706 had jurisdiction over this job and the expenses of policing the job, securing better hours, wages, and working conditions during this period of time fell upon the shoulders of the officers and members of local union 706.

I have been a regular attendant at the meetings of local 706 and know that each year around Christmas time the officials of the local union have been authorized to buy and give Christmas presents to various people who have helped the membership of local 706 secure employment when there was not sufficient employment in the El Dorado area to employ all of its members.

I know of no one in local 706 who has ever been discriminated against because he has a different view upon any subject than the officers. On many occasions there have been some strong arguments on the floor about various subjects which have been brought on the floor and I assume that everyone felt as I did that every member of local 706 was entitled to express his opinion on any matter which came before a meeting of the union or bring up any matter which he felt should be discussed at a union meeting. As a matter of fact, there is a certain time set aside in the conduct of the union meeting wherein anyone is invited to bring up any subject for the good and welfare of the union and have it discussed thoroughly.

I know of some meetings held of the employees on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job near the jobsite concerning the fact that no one was required to pay the $3.50 a week working assessment in order to hold his job on this project. I did not attend these meetings as I felt that I was thoroughly familiar with that matter and I never attempted to collect any money from nonmembers of local 706, but did receive some from such persons as a voluntary contribution. I am sure that there were men in my crew who did not pay this $3.50 working assessment who were members of local 706 and they were never terminated. I am also sure that there were nonmembers of local 706 who were working in my crew who never paid this $3.50 per week assessment and they were never terminated. I know of no one who was ever terminated for the nonpayment of this $3.50 working assessment, whether he be a member or nonmember of local 706.

I also know that the subject of giving Christmas presents to various persons was brought up at various local union meetings and the membership always voted to authorize the officers to purchase such Christmas presents and deliver

them to people who had assisted the members of the local union in securing employment.

I have read the foregoing and state that the same is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief on this 28th day of September 1960.

R. J. GARRETT.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of September 1960. [SEAL] WANDA WASHINGTON, Notary Public.

My commission expires October 1, 1961.

EXHIBIT No. 67

AFFIDAVIT OF "RED" EVANS

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Union, ss:

I live at El Dorado, Ark., and at the present time I am piping superintendent of Wilson Hargett Construction Co. I am a member of local 706 and have been such for several years. During the construction of the Pine Bluff Arsenal by Blaw-Knox Construction Co. I was a piping superintendent for this company. At no time did anyone ever state in my presence or ever state to me that anyone on the job had to pay a $3.50 working assessment in order to remain employed by Blaw-Knox Construction Co. Although I cannot remember their names at this late date, I know that some of the men under me did not pay this $3.50 per week and that they were never discharged for the nonpayment thereof. I know of no one who was discharged for the nonpayment of this $3.50 per week to local 706.

There is a provision in the bylaws that the members of local 706 are required to pay a working assessment when they work a full week, but if these men failed to pay this working assessment they were not terminated from the job, but were required to pay the assessment before their dues would be accepted in the local union.

I know of no one who has been discriminated against in the local union for expressing his opinion on any matter which came before the local union meeting. I have always felt that I was free to express my opinion on any subject, whether or not my opinion agreed with the opinion of Earl or Ermon Griffin or anyone else. With regard to the hiring situation at Blaw-Knox, some people would come out on the job and hire in and after working a day or two and not being able to find suitable accommodations for themselves and their families in Pine Bluff or for other reasons would leave the job. These men were still carried on the payroll records until the superintendent was able to give them a termination because of a reduction in force. Blaw-Know was required by the Government to have so many pipefitters on this job and when people would be sick or leave the job they would still be carried on the records as an employee, but, of course, would not be paid for the time when they were not actually working. This fact would, of course, show that there were so many people on the payroll, but it would not necessarily mean that they were being paid or that they were working on the job. Blaw-Knox was trying to get qualified pipefitters wherever they could at this particular time in order to keep the job manned and they would only have a reduction in force at intervals according to the progress made on the job. When there was a reduction in force permitted, then these people who had already left the job for one reason or another would be shown as having been terminated because of a reduction in force.

I remember on several occasions when I have been in the union meetings that the question would come up concerning the giving of Christmas presents to various people and the officers of the union were authorized to do so by the membership.

I have read the foregoing and state that the same is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief on this 28th day of September 1960.

"Red Evans, M. L. EVANS.

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

My commission expires March 23, 1963.

C. W. DANCER, Notary Public.

62255-61-18

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