The Winslow mail., 1923-02-16


Q.-How did you learn it?
A.-By all the trains being congre
gated there, and the men had told me
that they had gone out of service.
Q.-Now who told you that they
had gone out of service?
A.-The committeeman there.
Q.-Well, who was the committee
man?
A.-C. P. Holly was acting as COM
mitteeman there.
Q.-What did he say to you?
Ale said they had quit work at
4 o'clock.
Q,-One of the defendants here?
A.-Yes.
Odd he say why?
A.-On account of the unsafe con-
ditions on account of the guards.
Q.-And what did you say?
Al said, Il guess 1 am with him,
too."
Q.--I didn't hear you
Al told them l was with Them
too.
Q.-And you quit?
A.-Yes.
Q.-What engine had you run that
day?
Al don't remember l had come
in there on a freight in the morning.
Q.-Did the engine that you ran in
on the freight that morning operate
safely?
Al don't remember.
Q.-Well, if there had been any
thing unsafe about it you would re-
member, would you not?
A.-Yes.a
Q.-Is it not to your best recollec-
ton, then, that the engine that you
came in on on the morning of the
tenth of August operated satisfactor-
lily?
A-Yes.
Q.-Had you been out on a run on
the ninth of August?
A.-Yes, started out on run.
Q.-And had the engine you used
on the ninth of August operated salts
factorily?
A.-As fas as I know it did.
Q.-Now on the eighth of August,
how about the engine that day?
Al think 1 was in Needles that
day.
Q.-You were not out on an engine
that day?
A.-No
Q.-Did you hear any talk then
about going out on strike? n
Al did not.
Q.-What had you heard about go
ing out on strike before August 10?
Al hadn't heard very much.
had seen a bulletin by our grand chief
which was posted along about the
first of the machinists' strike that if
conditions became unsafe to go home
and stay home.
Q.-Have you copy of that bull
letin?
Al have not.
Q.-That was the substance of it,
was it?
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-Now had you heard anything
else about the strike besides that?
A-No.
Q.-Had you attended meeting OF
your engine mems organization in
Needles prior to the tenth of August
at which the question of going out on
strike was discussed?
Al can't recall whether I did at
E.tend any meeting.
Q.-What organization do you be-
long to?
A.-The B. of L. E.
Q-How long have you belonged
to that?
Al don't know the exact date. II
must have been a number of years.
Q.-Do you hold any office in that
organization in your local lodge?
A.-No.
Q-Have you ever?
| A.-No.
Q-Are you in the employ of the
company now?
! A.-As far as I know.
Q-Have you been in the employ
of the company since this strike was
declared off on August 10?
A-Yes, sir.
Q.-Now on August what run
were you out on?
A.-On August z? I couldn't say
! for sure
Q.-Was your engine all right?
Al couldn't say whether 1 was
out on any run that day or not.
have no record of it.
Dwell, you remember the Occa-
sions when your engine was in un-
safe condition, don't you?
A.-Yes.
Q.-Were you out on a run on Aug
ust 6?
Al can't tell without looking at
the record whether I was or not.
Dwell, on any of the runs that
you were on from August l to August
10, did you have an unsafe engine?
Al believe 1 did; one on the sixth
Q.-All right; now what was the
number of that engine and what was
the trouble?
Al will have to look at my rec
ord here (referring to pocket memo
randum book.
Q.-Have you your record with
you?
A.-Yes. Engine $40.
Q.-And what was the matter with
that?
A.-She had no water glass, and
we broke down fifty-six miles from
Needles
Q-What was the trouble?