Life, 1911-04-27 · page 14 of 44
Life — April 27, 1911 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical pieces from *Life* magazine (circa 1910): **"The Greensburg Coal Strike"**: The article and accompanying cartoon criticize the Greensburg Coal & Coke Company in Pennsylvania for operating with autocratic control—comparing their power to Russian czars. The strike of 20,000 miners (March 1910) sought basic rights: an 8-hour day, independent weighers, freedom to buy goods outside company stores, and housing choice. The article attacks President George Franklin Huff and alleges the company controls local media and intimidates strikers. The cartoonist lampoons the company's authoritarian power through the top illustration (featuring a bloated, imperious figure). **"The Human Cook Book"**: Below, three caricatured figures—labeled "The Editor," "The Author," and "The Orchestra Leader"—are depicted as recipes or ingredients to be consumed, satirizing these professional types in humorous, dehumanizing terms typical of *Life's* satirical style. The overall page critiques corporate monopoly power and labor exploitation while employing *Life's* characteristic visual mockery.
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The Greensburg Coal Strike ROM the 22nd Pennsylvania Congressional Di sitting er is Curtis H. Gregg, a Dem succeeds George Franklin Huff, a Re lican live in Greensburg. Huff is President of the Coal & Coke Company, one of the concerns that tells us (April “have for years constituted ; as arrogant a any of the grand dukes of Moscow. Ve are juch informed about the d of Tula or Moscow, but the one in Congressman Gre trict in Pennsylvania looms up, as Richard Lloyd J scribes it in Collier's, very grim and tyrannous. A year ago, on March 10, 1910, twenty thousar down there struck for an cight-hour day, the righ nize, the right to employ a weigher, and to live wl would, in or out of the company’s houses, and to bu where they would, in or out of the company’s stor these demands were refused and they are still striki says in Collier's that the strike is reasonable; that th skinned their men in various ways below ground and that the bosses—Huff, the late Congressman and the —control the local papers and most of local mir and that the case of the strikers never gets to t Jones says too that the strikers have been abused by the hir xuards of the companies. Altogether he tells a very harr ing story. Greensburg, the centre of the strike field, is twenty miles from Pittsburg. but that seems not to hi all Possibly Greensburg is twenty miles to the good We wonder about this story. If we were a Cong we would try to acquire the intance of Mr. Con: man Gregg and ask him about it. Pennsylvania is a mighty peculiar State, with pecw people in it, and just in the interest of natural history would like to know the rights of this strike in’ th “WLESSED AkE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INateerr Tar field. If it is as bad a case as Jones makes out in Collier's pari.” it-ought to be better advertised. ° THE EDITOR ORCHESTRA LEADER Take a personal hatred of ’ hundred and twenty-two movement Mix P c anuel, Swedish In refusing all efforts of ger And maiming all poets or comicbooks.com