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Show .SPICE OF LIFE Labor unions were strong in his city. On Halloween the boys pulled a lot of pickets off the fence of the union barber and made a bonfire of them. The barber bought some new & pickets and nailed them on his fence himself. The barber was promptly fined $50 by the council for doing carpenter work which should have been done by a union carpenter. The barber thought this over for some time. Then he presented the carpenter's carpen-ter's union with a bill for $1,375. "What's this for?" asked the chief of the carpenter's union. "Why," the barber replied, "that's what's due the barbers because the carpenters shave themselves." His fine was remitted. San Francisco Argonaut. |
