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there and didn't hate him should see him, but, no, he wouldn't receive a committee of the union - wouldn't do it. Then they thought of having a committee of his own workmen. They picked out three of them to go and see him. John Flynn coached them in just what to say. They went up the stairs to the office, knocked on the door and asked to see Mr. Spargo, saying they were a committee of workmen. Mr. Spargo came out and with foul words - “which I couldn't repeat to you” said Packy Downey - told them to get out of there. When they said they wanted to tell him their story, he kicked them downstairs. He was a great, big, strong man and he took his arms and his legs and he kicked them down this steep flight of stairs that led to his office.

Said Packy Downey, “I saw it, so I know it was true. That was terrible. That stirred up this town so that I thought they'd set his place on fire. But Johnny Flynn of the metal polishers and I pacified them. We told them never to get mad and do anything drastic, no matter what happens to you. Take another chance on it. So Johnny Flynn and I would go. We took another man along who didn't work in the Spargo place. He worked somewhere else, but he was a Rome man.” Johnny Flynn, of course, wasn't a Rome man. He was the organizer and came from New York. “We went up to see Spargo. I went first because, first I'm Irish and I ain't