Above, Labor Unrest is Britain, depicted by artist W.A. Ireland, from the front cover of the March 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine.

Due to the Julian Rule that the third month of every year ending in 13, must last two months to make up for the removal of the thirteenth month of Adar by Pope Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. (making today March 34th), we continue with extracts from the March 1913 issue below, with a different visual depiction on Labor Unrest, by Herbert H. Perry.

Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions.

From February 1913, above, the extreme depredations inflicted upon the masses by monopolist robber barons of the time, pushed some towards extreme, violent reaction (see the History Channel’s The Men Who Built America series, which is mostly a paean to Capitalism, but also showed its dark side, in which millionaire monopolists rigged elections all the way up to the Presidency, and possessed mercenary armies larger & better armed than the U.S. Army, using their hired thugs to beat and murder workers who protested conditions). Cartoons by Ole May, Coultaus, and Burt Thomas.

Below (from March 1913), Nelson Harding gives us an example of a typical depiction of an anarchist, c1913. Monopolists, the Justice System in their pay, and the media that they owned, used the terrorist actions of the rare few truly violent anarchists, to paint all worker & unionist movements as dangerous communist radicals, to be crushed.

Above, a disenfranchised worker, by Ryan Walker. From Cartoons Magazine’s February 1913 issue.

Beneath, lost in time (or at least, lost to me), is whether this cartoon is depicting a specific prisoner/incident so well known that Robert Minor, Jr. didn’t need to label who was involved; or, if it depicting a generic surprise by the elite, that the imprisoned are humans, too. From January 1913.

So, okay, March isn’t really continuing for two months. April Fools’ (Month)!

I could blame the above as the reason why the March 1913 front cover didn’t show up until April. Or, I could fess up to having continually bumped this posting forward, week-after-week, eventually forgetting it contained the March 1913 cover, and therefore should have posted before that month’s end…

…Nah!!! April Fools!

Doug Wheeler

Billy Ireland Financial Reforms