Q. Did you ever have any strike before?
A. I don't remember any strike in the last seventeen or eighteen years on the Pennsylvania road.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Had any differences arisen between the employés and the company at any time?
A. Oh, yes; differences have arisen, but none that were not adjusted by compromise.
Q. Was there any difference existing between the company and the employés about the time of the strike on the Reading railroad—you remember there was a strike a few months before on the Reading railroad—principally the engineers?
A. There was no difference, at that time, that I know of.
Q. What is the general policy of your company in such cases—cases of disagreement or dissatisfaction between you and the men?
A. We hear the statement of the men, and if we think they have any just ground for complaint, we endeavor to remedy them, and after we have said so and so, we stand by our position. We looked upon this objection of the men to the running of double-headers as an interference with our own business. We thought that if we would let them say how many engines or cars should go to a train, we might as well give up the management into their hands, so we did not have any discussion about it. But we had no formal complaint. No committee waited on us in regard to that. We simply knew that some of the men objected, but from no person had we any complaint in a formal way. We did not think it a thing that affected the men, personally, but thought it simply a question of management.
Q. Always, when any difficulty had arisen or any complaint had been made, you had come to an amicable solution?