Life Drawing Sunday X: Labor Day

Though Labor Day became a national holiday in 1887, just four years after Life began, I couldn't find any cartoons that refer to the holiday specifically. But these drawings (and two text pieces) from the teens into the twenties all comment on labor (or capital) and run the gamut from being fairly supportive of labor (in one case mawkishly so) to being kinda freaked out by it.


Art Young, April 27, 1911

Warren Rockwell, April 27, 1911

Herbert Johnson, April 27, 1911

April 27, 1911

Ben Cohen, February 29, 1912

John Conacher, April 27, 1911


Herbert Johnson, April 27, 1911

uncertain, April 27, 1911

February 29, 1912

B.H. Sanders, April 27, 1911

Art Young, April 27, 1911

W. O. Wilson, October 1, 1914

Paul C. Stahr, December 14, 1916

Ellison Hoover, December 14, 1916

W. O. Wilson, November 25, 1920

F. M. Follett, January 8, 1920

Paul Reilly, January 29, 1920

Al Merrick, March 8, 1917

undecipherable signature guy, February 12, 1920

T. S. Sullivant, May 6, 1920

F. T. Richards, May 6, 1920

Louis Raemaekers, June 17, 1920

Paul Reilly, March 4, 1920

F. T. Richards, October 21, 1920

Angus MacDonall, October 21, 1920

Farr, March 13, 1924

G. B. Inwood, March 13, 1924

Garrett Price, February 9, 1928