Q. Was there a representative of your company present?
A. There may have been. I don't know nor whether they had up the question of compensation to the men. Our action on the subject was based on the general results of the business of the company, and the necessity of some positive thing being done in aid of the company and in aid of the men as well.
Q. The action of your company, in this reduction, was solely by yourselves, without any understanding?
A. With the other trunk lines?
Q. Yes.
A. None whatever. I think they didn't make any reduction until July.
Q. Didn't the New York Central make a reduction about that time?
A. I think on the 1st of July.
Q. And the Baltimore and Ohio about that time?
A. Somewhere along there. I don't know the dates exactly.