Hellraisers Journal: From the Spokane Industrial Worker: the Employer, the Unemployed and the Man on the Job

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Quote Joe Hill, Mr Block Got Lucky, LRSB 36th ed, 1995———-

Hellraisers Journal – Monday August 8, 1910
The Employer-The Unemployed-The Man on the Job

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of August 6, 1910:

IWW Cartoon re UE, IW p1, Aug 6, 1910

[Text:]

The boss works not at all. The unemployed works not at all. The worker works 10 hours per day. The worker produces a luxurious living for the boss, an existence for the unemployed, and a bare living for himself. What’s the matter with letting the unemployed go to work, making the boss go to work, and having the worker working one-third as long? If we organize and cut the working hours the boss will have to hire the unemployed. That will reduce competition among the workers for a job and give them power to later force the boss to cease being a boss and become a worker.

[Detail:]

IWW Cartoon re UE, detail, IW p1, Aug 6, 1910

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Joe Hill, Mr Block Got Lucky, LRSB 36th ed, 1995
https://libcom.org/files/TheLittleRedSongBook_text.pdf

Industrial Worker
(Spokane, Washington)
-Aug 6, 1910
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v2n20-w72-aug-06-1910-IW.pdf

Note: Have been unable to identify the cartoonist, would appreciate any help with same.

IWW Cartoon re UE, Signature, IW p1, Aug 6, 1910

See also:
Tag: Employment Sharks
https://weneverforget.org/tag/employment-sharks/

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Mr. Block – Utah Phillips
Lyrics by Joe Hill
First published in 1913 LRSB