Life — June 18, 1914 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 1100 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.