of Bigger sometimes took charge of supervising the men.  The sweeping job was rotated, and Gates took his turn in doing it.  Gates stated that two or three days before Judkins was fired he had instructed him to sweep up but that when he came back from the break Judkins had not done so.  He said that he had reported this to Bigger.  Gates also testified that although Judkins had worked well initially, 'it seemed like he slowed down and just didn't do as good a job as he did when he first started.'  'It seemed like that he wasn't as fast (as) he was before, I mean, he slowed down; and we would be pushing cattle in the coolers, and he gotJudkins


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 There was a dispute in the testimony as to when Judkins was employed.  Judkins testified that he was employed in July 1958.  Frosty Morn Meats contended that he was not employed until September 6.  It introduced Judkins's signed employment application, his signed withholding certificate, and his initial time card, all dated September 6, 1958, as evidence on this point.  One witness testified that Judkins had been there 'one or two months' when fired, another estimated his period of employment as 'two or three months'.  The date was significant because the Company asserted before the trial examiner that Judkins had sought employment with Frosty Morn Meats as a 'sleeper' to organize the union and introduced testimony that Judkins during July had talked with