Life, 1914-06-18 · page 8 of 44
Life — June 18, 1914 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains a serious article titled "Hitting the Mark" about labor strikes in Colorado, accompanied by a photograph of children at "Life's Fresh Air Farm." The accompanying cartoon at bottom, titled "THIS IS NO PROBLEM," uses a satirical equation: a money bag labeled "NEW YORK, NEW AND HARTFORD" plus two wealthy men exchanging money equals a poor woman with a child in ragged clothes holding an empty pocket. The cartoon critiques railroad company profits and wealth inequality during the labor dispute. It suggests that railroad owners' financial dealings and dividends come directly at the expense of poor workers and their families—implying that the strikers' hardship and children's poverty are the logical outcome of corporate greed and exploitation.
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1100 Hitting the Mark HE Army and Navy Journal comes pretty close to the real basic trouble in Colorado when it says? Many of the strikers are for- cigners who do not speak English, and it is very difficult to make them understand when an cn- deavor to explain_a situation to them is made. Naturally they are bitterly incensed against the State troops and mine guards for the deaths of their women and children and men, The difficulty was not with the situation, but with explaining it. Wages were adequate. The bosses were gentle and kind. The gun- men were engaged for purely al- truistic purposes. Working con- 8 ditions were clean and pleasant, and living conditions ranged all the way from commodious to luxurious. The owners in New York stood ready to sacrifice their dividends to the last penny in order that their em- ployees might be comfortable and prosperous. But there was no way in which these truths could be got to the employees. They were happy, but they didn’t know it. How could they help being incensed at losing their wives and children when there. was nobody around to explain it to them? What we need out there is not United States troops, but interpreters of exceptional exposi- tory ability. PACES AT LIFE’S FRESH Which Shall It Be? “The question, then, is this: shall we give the railroads a square deal, or shall we continue to punish them for the sins of a former period, when the relations of railroads to the public were not understood as they are now?"—Frank A, Munsey, in @ recent article. AIR FARM ET’S sce, what were those sins of a former period? Financial jug- gling resulting in outrageous stock- watering to conceal profits. Shall we give ourselves a square deal, or shall we keep on forever paying profits on all that watered stock? THIS IS NO PROBLEM Life’s Fresh Air Fund Inclusive of 1913, Live's Faust Air Fuxo has been in operation twenty- seven years. In that time it expended $145,183.64 and has giv fortnight in the country to 33.75 poor city children. The Fund is supported entirely by bequests and voluntary contributions, which are acknowledged im this column. Previously acknowledged Miss Caroline L. Kend: A. E. Gallatin. ..... 10.00 John Alsop King. + 10.00 C. Birdsall ... vee $86 Edwin Gould . LLL. 100.00 Theodore R. Wakler Richard Rosemary Master Ralston AL H.W. .... D. Schnakenberg . Jeremah Milbank P, Gadebush $979.03 10.00 Hoyt “In memory. o| Jobn_ B. W.S. 5.86 10.00 1.73 10.00 10.00 10.00 25.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 8-86 a John T. Terry... B. G. Jr, Montelair, J. D. Peli... A. Tuckerman . n memory of Bella’. Edith, Christine, Anne and \ garet” .. . wats s. GM. M. 10.00, A Friend . LLL 10.00 E. H. Stoothoft. 1 5.86 C.F. Quincy. ... 10.00 George W. Reily. 10.00 G. K. Fullagar. + 10.00 Geo. W. Clyde. . 20.00 $1,667.92 comichooks.com