Q. What became of those men?
A. They were suspended.
Q. Was anything said to them, that they were suspended for a certain time, or were they just dropped?
A. Those crews were not suspended, but that many men, and a great many more, because the business had gone down, were suspended, and we were choosing the married men and the old men. The old men and the married men were chosen, in preference to the single men.
By Mr. Larrabee:
Q. But by suspension do you mean discharge, or do you mean suspension temporarily?
A. They were given to understand that there was no more work.
By Mr. Dewees:
Q. This was one of the causes, this doubling up, as I understood you to say, that created the dissatisfaction here at this point?
A. That is what they say.