HOBO "KING"
QUITS THRONE FOR A JOB i J. Leon Lazarowitz, “ King ” of *th® Hoboes of North America, called his cabinet together in Halifax recently to announce that he had abdicated his throne—because he is taking a job. He appointed three “regents” to carry on until a new king is elected at a hobo convention already set for next April, in St. Louis, United States. “ It’s hard,” said King Leon, “to leave the freedom of the road and hay© to be at a certain place at a certain, time so you can earn a certain amount of money for a certain amount of work. But I’ve promised a certain party to settle down and take a job. “ And plenty of us,” he added, “ are doing the same thing. There were 5,689 members of our union once. Now there are only 3,587. This shows many men are quitting the road, going to work.” Leon held his last court throned on a mark bench in the shadow of the Halifax city hall. His cabinet of 15 sat decorously on other benches. They had gathered by divers ways from the road# of the continent.
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Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 9
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191HOBO "KING" Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 9
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