The Cigar-makers' Union then asked me to appear before the Governor and argue for it.

I accordingly did so, acting as spokesman for the battered, undersized foreigners who represented the Union and the workers.

The Governor signed the bill.

Afterwards this tenement-house cigar legislation was declared invalid by the Court of Appeals in the Jacobs decision.

Jacobs was one of the rare tenement-house manufacturers of cigars who occupied quite a suite of rooms, so that in his case the living conditions were altogether exceptional.