Q. Was there anything condemning anything by the men?
A. There was nothing under the organization. The constitution and by-laws is the one safe basis of any society, and from their constitution and by-laws there is nothing whatever but that it is a law-abiding organization.
Q. Do you know of any resolutions being passed by any of those lodges and by this association, condemning interference with men who wished to work?
A. I do not, neither do I know of any resolution that urged anything of that kind.
Q. Were you present at this meeting out here at the silk-works?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What resolutions were passed there?
A. I do not know but very little about the resolutions. I went there in company—at the time, I held the position of chairman of the county and central committee, and was secretary of the Hyde park executive committee, and we went there in company with others of that executive committee—over to the silk-works meeting, with the understanding that there were delegations there from all over the county.
Q. You are secretary of the executive committee of what?
A. Of the miners.