Life, 1903-07-16 · page 5 of 20
Life — July 16, 1903 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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**Main Image ("The Same Old Business at the Same Old Stand"):** A caricatured figure in top hat and cape stands on a platform, blowing bubbles while addressing an enthusiastic crowd below. This appears to satirize political rhetoric or propaganda—the bubbles symbolize empty promises or hot air. The "stand" suggests an established political operation continuing unchanged. **"Labor Notes" Section:** Discusses union organizing efforts, specifically mentioning the Knights of Labor and Allied Arts. References a dispute over a widow's compensation claim and debates about manual labor instruction in schools. The satirical cartoon "Aisy Come, Aisy Go" mocks labor union activities. **"Science and Religion" Section:** Brief commentary on the ongoing tension between scientific and religious worldviews, referencing Dr. Lyman Abbott's philosophy.
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THE SAME OLD BUSINESS AT THE SAME OLD STANTS Labor Notes. ATA mecting of the Knights of Pud- dling and Allied Arts a few evenings ago, a gold medal was awarded to Ernest Slathers for dynamiting in the middle of the night cottage occupied by a partially paralyzed widow who had allowed her little girl to carry a dinner pail to a suspected non-union worker. Some objection was made to this award by Clark Spierers, who claimed to have discovered and reported that the widow was partially paralyzed and that it would bes job. Hedemanded equal recognition, but, after some discuss had to be satisfied with honorable me tion. Some late arrivals happened to observe that the stars were still shining. Loud cries of ‘scabs, scabs,” greeted this announcement from a delegation of the Bootblacks’ Union. A paper was read on the Lazzaroni of Italy and the Hoboes of Americ While the many undeniable merits of these two great organizations were frankly recognized, it was pointed out that they supinely allowed others to work unmolested and uncriticised. Such being the case, how could real progress be made and that AISY COME, AISY GO. ideal ever be reached when but one form of work was allowed— the working of the growler? A resolution was adopted to discourage manual teaching in the schools, and a member of the French Society of Cooks and Coppers suggested the importation of a Voulavadir de Paris as Instructor to lecture one “How to Flanet.” It was reported that six mills had closed ina Massachusetts town Jast month in consequence of the local unio: and would not be re- The sp before long, under the intelligent aud power- ful dominion of labor, no fac would be left smoking from Maine to Francisco, and no fly-wheel would be with- opened. ihe trusted that ing the qu will be in Hell Invented Work?” ht debated,‘ W * Bunner, Science and Religion. [THE last word from science is that each of us normally contains both good and bad microbes, and that the two parties are constantly at wal This seems to bear out Dr. Lyman Abbott, who maintains that hell is with. in us, HER New UAT. comicbooks.com