A. I think the sympathy was with the strikers from the first. I feel satisfied it was. But I am only giving you my own opinion.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. But you give that opinion, having formed it after intercourse with the people, and after being in the crowd?
A. Yes; I talked with a great many of them, and they appeared to think it was a hardship to reduce the wages and the numbers of the men, and also, once in a while, they would bring in this freight discrimination question.
Q. If you had had the warrants on Thursday night, could you have arrested those parties?
A. If I had had a posse of two hundred or two hundred and fifty I probably could have arrested them, but probably there would have been somebody killed. I believe on Thursday morning if I had had the number of police that Mayor McCarthy had, I could have arrested the leaders, and put in prison the disorderly parties, and that then the trouble would not have assumed the proportions it did. That is only my own idea of it.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Could it have been done on Thursday?
A. As I said before, I was out of Pittsburgh part of Thursday. I was called away on business.
Q. But from the time you became acquainted with the difficulty first?