Binghamton Clothing Factory Fire: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #118
This week is the 100th Anniversary of the July 22nd, 1913 Binghamton Clothing Factory Fire, in which 31 lost their lives. Not nearly as famous as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire two years earlier, it nevertheless emphasized that safety reforms, not yet passed because of resistance by factory owners that worker safety was too much [...]
Child Labor: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #117 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
A couple cartoons on Child Labor, to cheer up the hearts of factory owners everywhere… Above, The Factory Ferocities, by Robert Seymour, from issue 71, April 13th, 1833 of Figaro in London. Beneath, by Boardman Robinson, Giving Him a Chance, as reprinted in the February 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & [...]
J.P. Morgan: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #116 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
A few quick peeks today at monopolist market manipulator, J.P. Morgan, who helped buy several U.S. Presidential Elections for the Republican Party (such as William McKinley’s election). Above, a depiction of J.P. Morgan by artist James E. Murphy, found in the February 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below cartoons to [...]
The Fugitive Oil Magnates: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #115 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial
With Tax Day coming next week, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the Brothers Rockefeller — the powerful founders of the Standard Oil “trust” — and their efforts to avoid both income taxes, and, answering for their unfair business practices. When I first saw the above the above Robert Minor, [...]
The Desperate React: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #114 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
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 [...]
Women’s History Month: Women’s Wages: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Wage Inequity between the sexes — still an issue being fought today — has likely been with us since the invention of money, though it is eye-brow raising to see that a century ago, when most women had yet to achieve even the right to vote, and when most men were receiving barely a subsistence [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #112 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial February 1913
From the February 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine, above & top, we have “Catching Them With the Goods” by artist James E. Murphy, depicting Wall Street up to one of the dirty tricks it still today attempts to pull. On the below half of the page, in “What Do the Tea Leaves Show?” by cartoonist [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #111
From Cartoons Magazine‘s February 1913 issue (above), and January 1913 (below), with the Taft Administration and out of the White House, Trusts/Monopolies of the Day worried that their days of brazen market manipulation would soon be at an end. (Of course, they weren’t — they perhaps just had to get a little more smarter & [...]
Ally Sloper, 1867: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #110
Above, from the August 14th, 1867 issue of British comic weekly magazine, Judy, we have the debut sequential comics appearance of writer/artist Charles H. Ross’ continuing comics character, Ally Sloper. Being the scheming swindler type (albeit, never any good at it), it’s appropriate that Ally’s first misadventure would involve an investment/banking swindle, of the type [...]
Wall Street Buys the Elections: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #109
Above, the front cover of the September 26th, 1896 issue of Up-To-Date. Titled Man and Master, it depicts Corporate Power dictating to workers how they should vote. Art by Champe. Beneath, The Vote That Elects Our President — being the signature in a checkbook, given by the wealthy/corporations, to fund the political campaign they favor [...]
