American "Hobo" King.
QUITS THRONE FOR A JOB. J. Leon Lazarowitz, "King" of the 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, U.S.A. "It's hard," said King Leon, "to leave the freedom of the road and haVe to be at a certain place ai 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 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 en a park benc:h 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 roads of the Continent.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19824, 29 September 1936, Page 4
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