Judge — November 8, 1919 — page 14: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This Don Herold cartoon satirizes a labor strike by the Airplane Taxi-Drivers' Union. The repeated visual sequence shows identical airplanes with pilots walking away in protest—a "walk-out." The humor derives from the absurdity: traditional labor strikes involve workers literally walking away from jobs, but airplane taxi drivers *are already airborne*, making a conventional "walk-out" nonsensical. The massive megaphone at the bottom represents the union organizer directing the strike action. The cartoon mocks either the impracticality of unionizing aviation workers or the blind application of standard labor tactics to aviation—a then-novel industry where traditional strike methods don't logically apply. The publication date and specific historical context remain unclear without additional information.