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“.... E. C. meetings, when we had gone
through an unusually hard siege of aspiring Es or A.E.s,
as we used to call them for short, my brother wrote De Leon
a formal application for the assistant editorship. As reference
of his ability, he stated the fact that for a whole year he had
been the editor in chief of the Swedish Bazar Nisse (a bazar
program, issued once a year, containing, besides the program,
some advertisements, a few jokes, and perhaps a foolish tale or
two). To demonstrate his literary ability he wrote, in very
halting English, a joke on De Leon himself which had taken
place a few days previously at a Cooper Union meeting. With
a properly suppliant mien, I handed this application to Com-
rade De Leon. De Leon read it, and, instead of roaring, as I
had expected, the A. E. martyrdom expression spread over
his features, and I saw a sigh gather in his bosom as he handed
the letter to John Hossack, then manager of the Labor News
Company. As Hossack read his 'eyes...”
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