A. What I have always understood by a strike, is the men quitting work.
Q. You understand that they are all to quit?
A. Most undoubtedly.
Q. For the purpose of stopping traffic—the running of trains?
A. If that would stop it—most undoubtedly.
Q. Is it customary, in railroad strikes, for the men who quit work, to stop others from working, by violence or otherwise?
A. I have never seen it—by violence.
Q. Only by persuasion?
A. Only by persuasion. I have heard about a great many men being stopped, but, if our railroad men would get up and testify—I have heard railroad men claim that they wanted to work, but there was not one of them, that was not in the mire just as deep, while the thing was going on.
By Senator Reyburn: