Child Labor: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #106
With some Tea Party Republican extremists calling for the elimination of regulations, going so far as to eliminate regulations against Child Labor — and, with the possibility of a Republican President who allow this and other extremist legislation from a Republican Congress to pass without a veto — we take a look at a few [...]
Military vs. Budget: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #105
So hey people, today we start out with cartoons on some actual warships, just a few years prior to 1916! And guess what, they were arguing back then, on whether they had enough ships! And just out, Mitt Romney’s newest round of advertisements, takes his penchance for lying to a whole new level. He has [...]
Union Busting: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #102
Above, by artist Homer Davenport, from back in the days when corporations hired thugs to beat up, & sometimes murder, striking workers (and often with the help of the government and the police), comes “Arbitration in a Strike” — Plate 17 in Davenport‘s collection, The Dollar or the Man?. Republicans have been especially on the [...]
The Wretched Poor…
…or, as Mitt Romney referred to them in his speech that keeps on giving, 47% of Americans. Following, is a handful of cartoons reflective of the Romney attitude towards non-wealthy American workers, retirees, and veterans, which he laid bare by the words he spoke when amongst his own (those who can spend $50,000 on lunch). [...]
The Ruling Clawss: Born into Privilege
We all know the old business mantra, “You need to have money, to make money.” One of our two (major) Presidential candidate’s claim to success is grounded in having inherited his start-up funds, and, while on the campaign trail, he told students (at Otterbein University in Ohio) that if they wanted to pay for their [...]
Regulation as Wall Street Pretends to See it: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #99
The wealthy crying that any laws restricting their reckless financial gambling (i.e., what gave us both the First and current Second Great Depressions), and doing anything they want to the benefit of their personal selves when it works — and to the harm of everyone else when it doesn’t — is “Socialist Tyranny”, is hardly [...]
Health Care
Today being the Supreme Court’s ruling on Health Care, I’ve quick thrown together a few related cartoons. Above, artist Syd Hoff‘s take on the Supreme Court, from his 1935 Great Depression I era book, The Ruling Clawss, collecting samples of his cartoons previously published in The Daily Worker. Click on the above & below cartoons, [...]
Syd Hoff’s “The Ruling Clawss”
For today’s May Day posting, we present several more cartoons from the 1935 Great Depression I book, The Ruling Clawss, collecting artist Syd Hoff‘s (under his pseudonym “A. Redfield“) cartoons published in The Daily Worker. Enjoy! Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Doug Wheeler [...]
Marvels of the Machine Age: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 77
In honor of the candidate, who “likes to fire people”… Above, by cartoonist Syd Hoff (publishing under the pseudonym “A. Redfield”), from the 1935 collection of his Daily Worker cartoons, The Ruling Clawss. Click on the above & above cartoon, to view it in more detail. To find prior episodes of this series,click on Wall [...]
Free Speech — WITH Exceptions: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 71
With numerous cities cracking down on Occupy Wall Street protests, and Republicans calling for the arrest and prosecution of protesters, now seems the time to post the following cartoons. Republicans regularly denounce calls for progressive, graduated taxes by income (i.e., higher tax rates for higher income earners) as “Class Warfare”. In truth, it is the [...]
