J. Leon Lazarowitz, of Brooklyn, self-styled “king of the hoboes,” has abdicated.
In a letter read at the convention of the International Itinerant Workers of the World, he yielded the “throne” to Jeff Davis, Cincinnati, who also has been claiming the title.
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