A. No, sir; I attended one meeting the firemen had. Engineers had their meeting, and firemen had their meeting, and trainmen had their meeting.
Q. Do you know whether there was a man selected to start this strike in any way?
A. To tell the truth, there was not one man in Pittsburgh knew this strike was to occur on the 19th of July.
Q. You believe the first man that left the train——
A. Was the cause of the rest following. This Rye, one of the men you had before you, his crew was to go out that morning at eight-forty. That would have been the second double-header on the road. Of course, there was a good many double-headers run over it, but it was to be general. There was to be no single trains. When his crew said they were not going out, we might as well quit this, as to be discharged after a while, then the rest of the men coming in, they would not go out, then, because the first fellows refused to go out on double-headers. If a man would have wanted to go out, he could have. There was nothing to prevent him, if he had a little courage.
Q. There would have been no bodily injury?
A. No, sir; if I had wanted to go out, I could have gone out or anything else. The strike was conducted by intimidation.
Q. I understand you one fellow got struck with a link?
A. That was done by a party who was not really responsible for what he was doing. He was a little the worse for his beer, or he would not have done it.
Q. We had testimony that links and pins were thrown at engineers on their engines—did you see anything of that kind?