Q. Did they send any word or have any interviews with the miners to persuade the miners to strike?
A. Not to my knowledge.
Q. The miners held a meeting and resolved to strike also. Is that the way of it?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. How long after the railroad employés struck?
A. I presume, if my memory serves me, it was about a week after the railroad strike, so far as I remember. I did not take any notice of it.
Q. Did the miners have any organization, any societies among themselves?
A. I presume that they had an organization. They used to have organizations. What they termed the W.B.A.
Q. Had they any in last summer—in 1877?
A. I presume they had.