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or consult with a committee of the workers. If this committee grew to be a branch of a union, they would deal with the international offices of the union. At any rate, they agreed that the international offices of the union might advise their workers.

That was all right. We settled it at noon. Everybody shook hands. The Italians came up and shook hands with all the copper manufacturers and said what a nice place it was to work in the kittleshop, how they liked working for these people. All was well except for Spargo. They all vowed they wouldn't go back to work for Spargo. They were all going to work in the kittleshop and other places and let Spargo die on the vine. He made wire coils which were used later in bedsprings. I don't think he made the springs, but he made the coils. He employed about five or six hundred men. I don't think the other industries could absorb all of them, but it was summer.

Spargo didn't show up for a long time. According to gossips - I don't know this for certain - Spargo went off to the Adirondacks and got good and drunk. He was gone on a big spree for at least a month or six weeks before he showed up again. Packy Downey once told me that he never did come back to Rome to operate. The other manufacturers had been so raw to him that he made the place over to his