A. So the railroad and everything of that kind call it a strike; but it is not termed a strike unless there is an arrangement or understanding that they all quit. A meeting is called, there is a delegation appointed to inform the officials of the corporations of the demand of the men, and that committee returns back and reports; and if that is accepted—sometimes it is decided by ballot—if they agree to suspend work until their demand is complied with—they go under the term strike.
Q. What is the object of the men, and what means would be resorted to, to prevent other men from working?
A. There is no provision to prevent anybody. I never knew of any proviso to prevent anybody from working.
Q. Then when there is any interference, it is unauthorized by your organization?
A. Oh, yes.
Q. When men go on a strike, and others will undertake to work in their stead, and they are interrupted by violence and threats of violence?
A. No organization could be accountable for that, and I wish to state here that the late strike was not under the auspices of that organization.
Q. That strike at that time was not under their auspices?
A. The strike was not inaugurated by the organization.
Q. Did the organization approve of it?