- Pencils
- Lynd Ward ?
- Inks
- Lynd Ward ?
- Letters
- Typeset
Title page, front matter, brand image
- Script
- Lynd Ward (credited)
- Pencils
- Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)
- Inks
- Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Elderly gentleman; butler; corporation officers; workers; strikebreakers; soldiers; doctors
- Synopsis
- An elderly gentlemen pursues refined and artistic pleasures. When his corporation profits decline he orders pay cuts, layoffs, and longer hours. As the workers strike he hires strikebreakers, then gets government officials to send in troops. He collapses and is bedridden, but profits once again are up.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Engraving; Great Depression; pantomime; strikebreaker; union; woodcut; wordless
The corporation in this story is the one from which the father is laid off in the previous story. The story is told as if through the course of a year, from January through December.
- Script
- Lynd Ward (credited)
- Pencils
- Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)
- Inks
- Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- The boy; the girl; elderly gentleman; drunk driver; Bugg
- Synopsis
- After bidding the girl farewell the boy wanders in search of work until he is sole witness of a fatal car crash. Stealing the victim's good clothes he returns to the city, watching the girl from afar, but the only work he can find is as a strikebreaker, which he refuses to be. Desperately he attempts crime but is scared off by a passing policeman. At length he sells his blood to the bedridden elderly gentleman, who needs a transfusion. With those few dollars in his pocket he makes a glum reunion with the girl, on a downward roller coaster.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Drunk driver; engraving; Great Depression; pantomime; strikebreaker; unemployment; woodcut; wordless
The story is told as though in the space of a week, Monday through Sunday.
The verso side of each illustration, plus five more.