Q. Before your works started up again?
A. Yes; but I wouldn't be positive about that. I am a poor hand to remember dates.
Q. Where were the men during the time the works were standing?
A. They were around home scattered. They were some of them that wanted to work, who would go out in the country and get work. Some of them laid around—loafed around.
Q. Unemployed?
A. Unemployed principally. Our men—I could have worked a good many more men if they would have worked, but they were afraid; men were actually afraid, my men told me. I could not get enough hardly to do what work I had to do. Tried to prevail on them to work. They said they would like to work but were afraid. I had a few at work, and several of them as they were going home they were stoned. They said if they didn't stop work they would burn every building down.
Q. What class of men were those that made these threats?
A. They were German and Irish.
Q. Were any of them arrested?
A. I don't know that any of them were arrested. The men were actually afraid to work. There was a great many glad to work, but they didn't dare. I know it was the case with my men.