Q. Did it extend on the Erie road, and to the Atlantic and Great Western?
A. Yes.
Q. Over the whole length of the road?
A. I do not know.
Q. Where did it originate?
A. In Allegheny City.
Q. What arrangements, if any, were made by your organization for a strike?
A. When we thought we were strong enough so we could control at least three-fourths of the men of those roads, then we thought we could bring matters to a point—we could all quit. We knew they could not find enough green men to run the roads, and we thought that the citizens would look at it in the same light as we did—that the citizens would not care to trust their lives to green men—that the people traveling on the roads would not trust their lives to green men; and we thought by all going off and stopping the traffic on the roads that they would give us back our ten per cent.
Q. It was not organized until after the ten per cent. reduction was made on the 1st of June?
A. No; but it was talked about before that.