Life, 1923-05-03 · page 6 of 40
Life — May 3, 1923 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct elements: **Upper section:** A radio program schedule for Station LIFE, listing daytime broadcasts including news, lectures, and entertainment. **Lower cartoon:** Depicts a labor strike scenario. A man (the laborer) holds a pitchfork while his wife sits at a table. She sarcastically announces she's also "on strike," refusing to cook. The caption reads: "Laborer's Wife: Oh, so ye're on strike again! All right, ye can get ye own meals. I'm on strike, too." **The satire:** This mocks strike action by suggesting that if workers withhold labor, household tasks will similarly halt—implying wives should support strikes through domestic non-cooperation. It reflects early 20th-century labor tensions while also revealing contemporary attitudes about gender roles and marriage, suggesting wives' domestic work paralleled industrial labor.
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LIFE A Radio Program We All Should Enjoy Station LIFE (Wave Length Unlimited) 10 A. M.—Arlington time signals (proving that every- body’s watch is right). , 11 A. M—News note announcing reduction of $5 a ton in price of coal and fifty per cent. increase in supply. 1 P. M—Two-minute lecture by George Bernard Shaw on “Why I Decided to Cease Writing.” 2 P. M—News note announcing repeal of Volstead Act. 3 P. M—tTen-minute talks by prominent real-estate brokers explaining why houses and apartments will be cheaper in the fall. 4 P. M. to 6 P. M.—Intermission (to permit all radio fans to visit their places of employment and collect salaries). 7 P. M—tTheatre managers announce that tickets for any show may be had at the box offices. 8 P. M.—Bedtime stories by Tyre Ann Borem. (Guar- anteed to lull refractory children into immediate slumber.) 9 to 10 P. M—Musical program. (Selections froma musical comedy which is not all comedy.) 10:15 P. M—News note announcing reduction of passenger and freight rates on all railroads. 10:30 to 11:15 P, M—Five-minute talks on “Why We Decided to Live in Peace for the Next Hundred Years.” (By diplomatic representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, China, Germany, Russia and Turkey.) 11:30 P. M.—Official weather forecast. Fair and . warmer. “How can one read all the books one ought to, when one 11:45 P. M.—Reading of President Harding’s procla- hasn’t even time to read the ones one ought not to?” matignadgclaring to-morrow a holiday. HLL. H Mi] | : Oe Laborer’s Wife: Oh, so ye’re on strike again! All right, ye can get yer own meals. I'm on strike, too. comicbooks.com