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friendsays the laic keeper
so he says he is-rudolf myers,
and his w.ife stuclchim for 45 Rol
lers a month alimony for life. '
as h'ejexpects to liye anyway 40
years, he figgered this would' set
him back about 20.000 dollers-
by staying in ja)2 3-months j
and saving himself 20,000 dpllers,:i
He would be making mpney'.at the
rate of 80,000 dollers ' a year,
which was moreihaij he-had ever
been able to makebefore - r
the jailers he said' he got the
dope all right 'only lichade'nf: rer
ceived-noj prder from the, sheriff
'for rudolf's .arrest, and he cpuld
ent take no boarders without or
ders from the sheriff
my goodness, what am i going
to do, says rudolf, i have quit my
job for 3 months and-giyeh up
my boarding place, i'd like to
know where i am going to stay
tonight if i cant get into this jale,
guess you will-have to':go tP a
hotel; say?, the hard-harted jailer,
you don't get accellnor a cup of
coffyin this place'till you get
your regler papers '
-,ip 'rudolf couldent get in, and
he. 'vvent-away with his-suitcase,
growling anbVswearing sum thing
terjabld '
bht the next day his papers
come.from the sheriff, and now he
is a regler1 member of theclub
- - - jphny
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A LEGISLATOR WHO DESIGNED RATHER THAN SIT
WITH MEN WHO'D LET yOMEN BE OVERWORKED
Indianapolis, Mar. ..' 8. Repre
sentative John J. Keegan is the
hero of the working men and'
women of Indiana today.
-For Keegan did .what" the
. standpatters call anarchistic and
real human. beings fine business.
He" went on .strike, Awalked
out" of the legislature', when that
.body of patriots amended his 48
hour bill for'women workers to
54'hours
And by so doing, Keegan wdn
for the women of Indiana what he
had been unable to win for them
on the floor -of the house. . The
"day after he struck -the house
amended the 54-hbur amerided
bill to- 50 -hours, only two hours
more-than he demanded. Keegan
thinks that is a pretty fair vic
tory 'as strike, go..
Keegan is a Democrat, but be-
sides being that, he is a union
machinist, a working man and a
real; human being.
When Keegan introduced his
4&-hqur bill for women workers,
he" made an impassioned speech
to the house."
"My mother," he-told the legis
lators,' "never saw thejnside of a
laundry or factory, and she is liv
ing at 80. My wife did "work in
those places, and she has passed
away."
To the legislature came flock
the suave, oily lobbyists of the
canners. They drew the mem-,
bers aside ,and whispered to, them
:in corners. They told them that
Keegan's bill would kill .the 'to
mato industry of 'the state.-
"Tomatoes ripen so fast," they
would; explain. "And if that bill
m
is passed, we wWt; be ablettp,,getI
