A. I cannot give their names, but a great many have made application personally.
Q. Didn't you tell him that he had done wrong in being led away by the Brotherhood?
A. I know of a great many such cases. A great many I knew expressed a willingness to come back.
Q. And acknowledged to you that they had done wrong, and after their places had been filled by other parties, wanted to be again in the employ of the road?
A. A great many—I can hardly give you the number. The point with the company was this: we had taken on three hundred new men, and the first duty was to them. And most of those new men are excellent men. Some of them went to the expense of moving their families hundreds of miles. Many of the old men have written and asked to come back, saying that they did wrong, and saying that they were threatened. Many of them have been very seriously crippled, by reason of not receiving the pay promised them. I think that they promised sixty dollars a month to every man who quit the service of the company.
By Mr. Larrabee:
Q. From what source?
A. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
By Mr. Means:
Q. The money didn't come?