AMERICAN HOBO “KING”
QUITS THRONE FOR JOB
HALIFAX, Sept. 1. .j. Loon Lazarowitz, “King” of the Hoboes of North America, called his cabinet together in Halifax recently to announce that ho had abdicated bis 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, IT.S'.A.
It’s, bard,” said “King” Leon, “to
leave the freedom of the. road and have to ho 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 tiling. There were 5689 members of our union once. Now there are only 3587. This shows many men are quitting the road, going to work.” Leon held his last court throned on a. park bench in the shadow of the Halifax city hall. His cabinet of 15 sat decorously oil other benches. They had gathered by divers ways from the roads of the continent.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 11
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