Judge, 1933-08 · page 7 of 36
Judge — August 1933 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis **Top Cartoon ("Judge"):** A man shows a woman a bruise, claiming someone bit him. She responds skeptically that she can't verify his story and he'll have to prove it himself—a joke about unsubstantiated claims requiring evidence. **Bottom Cartoon ("Union Reds"):** Two older men discuss a labor incident involving a yacht and a "sixty-foot cruiser." One describes being ignored by union workers who blocked access to a pier. His friend calls this "a dirty trick" for communism, and the first agrees. The cartoon satirizes union activism by depicting it as communist-influenced obstruction. The accompanying text about "collectors spending vacations camping on our doorstep" suggests Red-baiting anxiety—a common Cold War-era concern about communist organizing or surveillance. Judge magazine frequently ran anti-communist and anti-labor union content during this period.
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Union Reds \WO old crates were sitting in the window of the Union League Club. One of them was beefing about an experience he had had the week before with his sixty foot express cruiser. He was saying indignant- ly:—“Well, sir, there I was almost out of gas and heading straight for the pier to get my tanks filled. And then, sir, just as I was getting in close a big yacht appeared, and ab- solutely ignoring me, nosed me out and pushed its way alongside the very pier I was making for. It meant a wait of several hours till the yacht’s tanks were filled.” His friend nodded sympathetically at such indignation, “that was a dirty trick all right!” “Dirty trick?” cried the irate one. “Why, that’s the sort of thing that makes for communism!” ND this summer a lot of collectors are spending their vacations camping on our doorstep. comicbooks.com