Short Science Fiction · Character
High-Pockets Jones
A mysterious spacer who turns up wherever working men need straightening out, gifted with an uncanny feel for machinery and a reputation that makes management nervous.
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Also known as Jones, Pockets Jones
First appearance: electron eat electron
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A barnstorming linotype operator with a theory of 'personal electricity,' sentenced to work on the troublesome No.
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High-Pockets Jones moves through the labor conflicts of the printing plants like a rumor made flesh, his talent with linecasting machines matched only by his inconvenient habit of appearing exactly where trouble is…
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