constructed by Blaw-Knox 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 conditions 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. Sometimes it was Earl Alexander, of Pine Bluff and sometimes it was George Stewart. 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.

O. K. ROGERS.

C. H. USSERY, Notary Public.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of October 1960. [SEAL]

My commission expires September 4, 1963.

EXHIBIT No. 72

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

AFFIDAVIT OF KENNETH HERBERT ANDREWS

County of Sebastian, ss:

I am Kenneth Herbert Andrews and I live in Fort Smith, Ark., at the present time. I am now and have been a member of local union No. 29 of the United Association for many years. At the present time I am operating my own business and have been for the last 3 or 4 years.

I remember the Pine Bluff Arsenal job in Pine Bluff, Ark., which Blaw-Knox Construction Co. was constructing for the U.S. Government. I worked on this job as a journeyman pipefitter and as a foreman for approximately 6 months. During the time that I worked on this job I did not pay any assessment into local 706 or any voluntary contribution into local 706. No one on the job told me that I was required to pay any assessment or voluntary contribution, or other moneys into local 706 and I did not do so.

While I was foreman down there on this job I did not collect any money from members in my crew.

I don't remember seeing any money collected from any of our men, but I know positively that I didn't collect any money from them, nor did I turn any money over to any representatives of local 706.

I left the job down there to come back to Fort Smith and assume the duties of business agent of the Fort Smith local.

While I was business agent of the Fort Smith local while the job was going on at Pine Bluff I heard no one complain or say anything about being forced to make any payment of an assessment into local 706 in order to be able to hold their jobs there.

"Red" Yocum, Earl Griffin, Ermon Griffin, or anyone else ever told me that I had to make any payment into local 706 in order to hold my job there and as long as I worked there I was never discriminated against or treated unfairly in any way because of the fact that I didn't make these payments. I left the job of my own free will and accord to come back to Fort Smith to assume the duties of business agent of this local union. During the period of time that I was busi

ness agent of the local union while this job was going on at Pine Bluff I never instructed any of my people that were on this job to make any payments into local 706 and if they were on the job and made the payment, I know nothing about it. 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.

KENNETH HERBERT ANDREWS.

My name is Robert H. Tinsley and I live at Route 4, El Dorado, Ark. During 1951 or 1952. I was working at Bauxite as a journeyman pipefitter. I was working out of local 155 in Little Rock, Ark., at that time. There was a strike at Beauxite and I went to the business agent in Little Rock, Mr. Dave Dove, when the strike took place and he told me that I could go to Pine Bluff, Ark., and work on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job there which was being constructed by Blaw-Knox Construction Co. This was in 1951 or 1952, I do not remember which year.

I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job as a journeyman pipefitter approximately 4 or 5 weeks, to the best of my memory at the present time. I worked there until the strike was settled at Bauxite and as we were not getting very much time at the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I went back to the job at Bauxite, Ark. During the time that I was employed by the Blaw-Knox Construction Co. on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I did not pay any working assessment to my foreman to hold my job there. I did not make any voluntary contribution to my foreman or to anyone else to hold my job there.

While I was working on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I paid a $2 a week working assessment into my own local which is local 155 in Little Rock, Ark.

No one told me that I had to pay $3.50 a week to work on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job and I did not pay it. It was my understanding that local 706 had jurisdiction, but I paid nothing into the treasury of local 706 while I was working on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job. I paid my working assessments into my own local, local 155 in Little Rock.

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

ROBERT H. TINSLEY.

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

My commission expires June 15, 1961.

EMMA JEAN CALLOWAY,
Notary Public.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

EXHIBIT No. 74

AFFIDAVIT OF E. B. WHEELIS

County of Union, ss:

My name is E. B. Wheelis and I have been a member of local 706 for a number of years. I worked on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job as a journeyman pipefitter along about the middle of the job for about 7 weeks when I left the job and went to a job in Lima, Ohio. While I was working on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job I attended a meeting of all the journeymen pipefitters and everyone having anything to do with the pipefitting trade on the Blaw-Knox Construction job. This meeting was held in a park near the site of the job and at that meeting Mr. Earl Griffin, the business agent of local 706, made a speech. Mr. Griffin stated that there had been some misunderstanding about who was to pay the $3.50 working assessment on the job and he made it clear at that time that

no one was required to pay the $3.50 working assessment in order to hold their jobs out there. Although I am a member of local 706, I never paid any of these assessments. I was not discriminated against in any way and held my job there until I quit and went to Lima, Ohio. I also know of several other people who were on this job that did not pay the working assessment. One of these people, whose name is Arnold Black, who lives in El Dorado, also did not pay this $3.50 working assessment. Black nor I were ever discriminated against or in any way told that we had to pay this $3.50 working assessment in order to hold our jobs there at the Pine Bluff Arsenal. I worked in several crews out there under several different foremen and none of the foremen ever told me that I had to pay this in order to hold my job.

I remember at local union meetings in which I have been in attendance that the subject would come up about giving Christmas presents to various and sundry people who were instrumental in helping our business agent place the members of local 706 when there was not enough work in our area to occupy all of our men. On every occasion when this matter has come up when I have been in a local union meeting the membership authorized and directed the business agent or the officers to purchase Christmas presents which were suitable for the particular individual and to send them to them as a token of our appreciation for using our men on the jobs which they might have in their areas. I have been a member of this local union for about 17 years and as long as I have been a member of the local union it has been a custom to give these Christmas presents to various and sundry people who have been of assistance to local 706 each year.

Insofar as the members of local 706 being able to express their opinion on the floor without fear of discrimination, I would like to say that every member of local 706 has the right and the privilege to get up on the floor and express his opinion about any subject or bring up any subject that he desires to on the floor without fear of discrimination. This has happened on many occasions and many people have gotten up on the floor and disagreed with the policies of Earl and Ermon Griffin and have been sent out on jobs the next day or are already on jobs and nothing ever happened with regard to their termination.

I have often disagreed with Earl and Ermon Griffin about various and sundry things, but I have never been discriminated against and I know of no one in this local union that has ever been discriminated against for that or any other

reason.

It is because of the relationship that the business agents have in this local union with the business agents of other local unions that we are able to get so many of our men employed in the jurisdiction of other local unions when the other local unions need men to man some project.

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

E. B. WHEELIS.

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

My commission expires June 15, 1961.

EMMA JEAN CALLOWAY,

Notary Public.

EXHIBIT No. 75

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

County of Union, ss:

AFFIDAVIT OF WALTER E. YARBROUGH

I am Walter E. Yarbrough and I live at 2402 Maryland Street, El Dorado, Ark. I am a member of local 665 and I have been a member of local 665 for a number of years. I was a member of local union No. 665 of the United Association in 1951 when I went to work on the Pine Bluff Arsenal job for Blaw-Knox Construction Co. which was constructing the arsenal at Pine Bluff for the U.S. Government.

I was sent out on the job by the business agent of local 665 whose name is Ray Chambless. To the best of my memory at the present time, I worked on the job some 3 or 4 months. I remember distinctly when I went out on the job that Mr. Chambless told me that I was not required to pay any money into any

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.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,

EXHIBIT No. 76

AFFIDAVIT OF FINIS LEE, JR.

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.