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In 1904, Phil slugged a Keystone weighman who was shorting him at the scales, was fired and ordered out of the county.

In 1904, a wiry, sandy-haired 18-year-old came up out of a coal mine in western Pennsylvania and swung on the company weighman for cheating.

When Phil was fired for his fight with the weighman, he went to work for the United Mine Workers in Pittsburgh.

At the age of 18, when he protested a weighman's estimate of the coal he had mined, slugged the weighman and got himself fired, fellow miners struck and elected him president of the United Mine Workers' local.

If you exaggerate the importance of the things you have learned, he almost surely will judge you to be an unfair weighman of yourself.