clock-winders

Updated: May 10, 2025

Suppose the president of the Clock-Winders' Union wanted to place his half-sister's husband with the P. R. R. He'd call at the White House and make his request. If he were refused, he'd threaten to call a strike of his union and stop every clock on the Isthmus. He'd get the job all right." "Of course, that is an exaggeration." "Not at all. It has been done is being done right along.

Rex Ellingwood Beach - The Ne'er-Do-Well