A. There was another reason assigned, something in substance to that.
By Mr. Lindsey:
Q. They wouldn't acknowledge that they were engaged in striking, in the conversations you had with them?
A. No, sir.
Q. Was there any fear, you think, operating on the minds of those men with whom you conversed that if they did acknowledge they were engaged in a strike they might be discharged by their several employers?
A. There may have been. I have no doubt some were affected in that way—no doubt of that, whatever.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. I understood the witness to say that the railroad men struck first?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Was there not a strike among other classes of men—iron men and rolling-mill men?