Joe Worker Comic Strip, No. 29-48. Published by

GLAD YES DECIDED
T1 JOIN US M O L E S ,
JOHNNY. AFORE
WE'RE
THROUGH
WE'LL 9E RUNNIKI'
DIS COUNTRY, 5EE!
THAT'S THE STUFF!
DOWN TH1 HATCH
T O U R NEW
AN'
HERE'S TUH
. JEEZ, THE
BOSS!
(HOLY CATS: MORTON GATES
DIASA DALE! I
MUST
BE BBSINS
THIMBU)
WELL,
PHIL.IER-I'M
JOE HAS RECOGNIZED THEM, IN SPITE OP THE
MASKS. BUT WILL THEY RECOGNIZE H I M ?
THIS 6 NO TIME
FOR DRINKING, SPIKE
WE'VE SOT WORK
TO DO.
AW GEE, BOSS! WE
JUST GOT A NEW
GUV-HEY, JOHNNY I
COME 'N BE
,
INTERDOOCED;
OE WORKER.DISGUISED
AS JOHN D O t
HA5 JOINED THE
AMERICAN EAGLE
PARTY, THE UNION BUSTING, HATE-MONGERING
CROWD RUN BY MORTON GATES.
THAT i S - THEY THINK HE
JOINED. ACTUALLY JOE HASN'T
SAIO A WORD.
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
| LATER, SPIKE. WE'RE
IN A HURRY,
I JUST CAME FROM
WASHINGTON, SEEING-ERSOME OLD FRIENDS OF
MINE IN CONGRESS.
THEY'RE GOING TO BUST THE
UNIONS NO MORE CLOSED
SHOP1- NO M O R E PICKETING
THEN US
GUY5 MOVE
IM!
Tug PRESIDENT WANTED
T
O LET !M SOME OP THOSE DISPLACED
PERSONS. BAN! WHAT W E WANT IS
TO SET 9lD OF THE
SORElGNERS / z j w - ' GET TO THE
HERE!
/T*~\V
POINT,
ER-YES-YOU SOYS HAVE A LOCAL JOB
IN GALESBuRG. THERE'5 A UMON HERE
AND A FOREIGNER WHO PLAYS BALL
WITH IT. I MEAN POLANSKI!
WHAT OOES GATES WANT
"THE BOYS" TO D O ' AND
W I L L THE NEK CONGRESS
BE
ANTI-LABOR?
I WANT THE SOYS TO
/ Y O U SETCHA,
FIX POLANSKl AND HIS UNION (
BOSS' CAN 00!
CONTRACT ONCE FOR ALL
,V_
LISTEN
BZZZ .
THE NEW
COMIC STRIP
HERO
COME ON, YOU
SUV& WE
5 0 * AL:
THAT
OABK S L A S S E S
AWPULLV SAMIL-AR
WE OUSHT TO
AND ChECK ON HIM
VOU'RE SETTING
JITTERY, DIANA.
OMR
&u NATSCHACHM
>.*&
1M[0RTON SATES
LJOTHINKS
C0KI6RESS
IS ANTI-LABOR AND
IT'S A SOOD TIMS
TO MAKE OALESBURS
SAFE FOR FASCISM,
%
^
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
MEANWHILE, OUT ON THE STREET...
HOT TO WAffM PDLASSKI
WATERS)
I
SURE! SURE! HE / E A C L i BUSINESS
CAN WAIT!
A COMES FIRST, PAL,
OOF! WHY DON'T VOU
LOOK WHERE VER SOING?
^ W > M B Y ! IT'S A BLASTED
GOTTA MEET
T H A T ' L L TEACH VOU
NIGGERS TUH BE ON
SIDEWALKS WlD
AMERICANS!
(I'M IN A
f SPOT, ALL
R/SHT!)
NOW { (JUMPING
LOOK s jeeps.1
HERE, > IT'S MV
SPIKE..1
Vgg, IT'S SEORSIE BBOWN, WHOSE ANCESTORS
CAME TO AMERICA LONS BEPORE SPIKE'S DID;
#30
THE Mw'
COMIC STRIP
HERO
B A B V ' YOU SORE
SMACKED THAT
COON HARD, SPIKE
AHD 0 .'*£ TO SMACK
PAiR Of iOu
fi
WAIT' I SOT Am t>£A:l
HEY, jOHNNV:
WHAT'S
THE BIS
IDEA?
SSH' GEORSIE' PRETEND vOu
DON'T REC06MZE ME ABE
vOu HURT BAD?
GEE,
MR, WORKER
.'SUI.P) IT IT'S NOTHIN
mimi
I GETCHA,
MR. WORKER
SORRY BUT I SOT
TO ACT ROUGH WITH
VOU. PRETEND TO
BE SCARED AND
LISTEN CAREFULLY.
NAT SCHAZMER d
(SlN THE WAV TO BUST
^ U P POLANSKI'S MILL
BECAUSE HE'S A
FOREIGNER AND HAS
6ISNED A UNION
CONTRACT, SPIKE KNOCKS
DOWN YOUNG GEOR.SIE BROWN
BECAUSE HE'S A NEGRO!
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
THAT'S TELLIN'
THEM COONS.
OFF,
AIN'T VOU GOT MORE
SENSE THAN TO SET
IN A WHITE MAN'S WAV?
GET TO m. WATERS
FAST, TELL HIM THE
E A G L E GANG ARE
6 O I N 5 TO WRECK
POL.AN5KTS.,,
JOHNNV.
I 6 0 T VOU IVR0N6
AT FIRST, PAL. VOU'RE
A RIGHT SUY( LIKE
PHIL SAC
'
I
NOW HERE'S THE
•
PITCH, JOHNNV. WHEN
^
WE SET TO POLANSKI'S...
•>—
t
r 1/"
^rtj
V
74*
~/J~.'/—•*-
WHAT EVIL SCHEME IS BREWING? AND WILL
GEORGIE GET TO BILL WATERS IN TIME?
#31
SEE: THIS POLANSKl HAS A NICE PLACE
GREEN GRASS, FOUNTAIN...IT SURE
LOOKS BETTER 'M SMITH'S TO WORK
LAV OFF DAT SAB1.
WHAT RIGHT'S A FOREIGNER
SOT TUH HAVE A NICE
PLACE ANYHOW?
(POtAf/SKIS AH
AMERICAN. POLANSKl
SMH-COHEN-WHAT'S J
J)
IN A NAME?)
XOU'RE SIGHT, JOHNNY
I
NEVER THOUGHT
ABOUT IT BEFORE
WHAT A DOPE! NO
WATCHMEN! NOT EVEN
A 6OOD LOCK! PIS IS
LIKE TAKIN6 CANDV
FROM A KID!
Z WOULONT PUT
THAT 0SYOM0 YOU,
BITHER!
T'S NlfiHT AND T H £
HOODLUMS APPROACH
THE POLANSKl MILLS.
MEANWHILE GEORSiE
BROWN 19 RACINE TO
BILL WATERS TO RAISE
THE ALARM.
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
TOO BAD v\E CAN BE 4ROUND
SAFE
A
}
9ONT MEAN
"CL 3 STEAL
i GOT THE
BOMS S P « E '
CERE'S ENOUGH OOMPH
V.SDE T u r 3 . C \ OS
< SGBOM COME
WhO ARE
GENTLEMEN?
BWS'£
: BET
k CTTA
JOE DOESN'T KNOW BILL WATERS WAS
CALLED SUDDENLY OUT OF TOWN.'
SEE Z •,!!>£ I
'00 .
WHO'S KNOCKING
THIS HOUR OF
THE NISHT?
IT'S M E , SEORGIE
BROWN. I GOTTA
SEE MR. WATERS
AW=JL PAST
HE'S OUT OF TOWN.
WON'T BE BACK TILL
MORMIN6. MOW SO 'WAV
AND
uET
ME
SLEEP
MR WATERS
WATERS
OPES d P .
QUICK.
WHILE JOE WORKER
IS HELPLESSLY WATCHING
THE E A G L E GANG GET
READY TO KILL POLANSKi
AND BLOW UP HIS PLANT
FOR THE CRIME OF BEING
PRO-UNION AND A FOREIGNER,
GEORSIE BROWN IS ON HIS
Mi
FOR H E L P . . .
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
SEE, POP, IT'S
S E 0 R 5 I E ! WHAT'S
FEET! DO
YOUR STUPP!
P-PLBNTVI THEV'S
SONNA BLOW UP
POLANSKI'S A N 1 AN' MR. WORKER'S
WITH ' E M IN
DISGUISE. I
TRIED T1 SET
M R . IVATERS
BUT HE AIN'T
HOME
I'LL SET THE
POLICE AND SOME
OP OUR UNION
FRIENDS... HELLO!
HELLO!
AND W E ' L L
SET
THE
SECRET FOUR,
GEORSIE! NO, WAIT!
F I R S T WE'LL GET
MISS SALLY!
THE WHOLE TOWN IS AROUSED BUT IT
LOOKS AS THOUGH THEY'LL BE TOO LATE.
#33
YOU WHAT
DO YOU
WANT'
SHUT UP YA DIRTY
POLAK TIE IM
UP PHIL
t DON'T UNDERSTAND,
I'M NO POLAK. I'M AN
AMERICAN!
YOU'SE IS GOING
BACK WHEREVER
YUH CAME FROMTHE HARD WAV!
DI5 BOMB'S FIXED
T SO OFF IKJ THREE
MINUTES. JUST
TIME FER US T '
SIT OUT!
IF X CAN
OVLV GET
7HAT GUN!
WHILE THE EPSTEINS
AND GEORSIE BROWN
ARE TRYING TO RAISE
THE TOWN, LET'S LOOK
AGAIN AT THE POLANSKI PLANT.
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
DIS SMELLS, PHIL. GRAB
DAT GUN, WHILE I TAKE
A GANDER AT DIS SUV
HEY! WHATCHA
W I N ' , JOHNNV?
CRIPES! IT'S JOE
WORKER1
SO YUH TRIED TA
FOOL ME, HEY?
WHAT A GREAT1
NIGHT FER TH
EAGLES'. 5/MACK
WID DA 6UN,
PHIL. IVE SCRAM
AN' TH' BO/HB
GOES OFF!
TWO MINUTES TO SO! JOE WORKER AND
POLANSKI SEEMED DOOMED!
*3H
THE PHONE'S DEAD.
THE EAGLES MUSl'VE
KNOCKED OUT THE
TELEPHONE OFFICE.
C'MON, GEORGIE.
THAT LEAVES
IT UP TO
US1.
AW! THEV'RE CATCHIN'
UP ON THEIR
BEAUTY SLEEP!
./f
POLANSKI IS TIED TIGHT
TO HIS CHAIR; JOE
WORKER HAS BEEN
RECOGNIZED ANO
KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS',
THE BOMB IS ABOUT TO
EXPLODE. MEANWHILE MR. EPSTEIN
IS TRVING TO PHONE THE POLICE.,.
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE 339-sffiEHs(PUFF-PUFF) RIGHT
DOWN? I AIN'T y
SEEN A GIRL WHAT
KIN DRESS FAST.
ME, NEITHER. IT
TAKES 'EM..,HOLy
CATS! THERE'S MISS
SALLV!
WE'VE SOT TO
HURRY! IF ANYTHING
HAPPENS TO JOE
I —
GEE! YOU'RE
DOING EIGHTY,
THE BOYS GET TO SALLY'S HOUSE IN
NOTHING FLAT.,.
POLANSKI'S MILL! AND
JOE'S WITH THEM? WAIT
A SECOND, BOYS. I'LL BE
RIGHT DOWN
THE NEW
COMIC STRIP
HERO
THOSE TERRIBLE PEOPLE-THEY LEFT US
HERE TO DIB! AND My BEAUTIFUL MILL TO
BLOW UP. WHY? BECAUSE I WAS BORN
SOMEWHERE ELSE,' BECAUSE I TREAT Mi
WORKERS LIKE HUMAN BE'NSS1
FOR MYSELF I DON'T CARE. I'M AN OLD
MAM. BUT THAT YOUN6 JOE WORKER.1 MY
EMPLOYEES WITH WIVES AND CHILDREN TO
SUPPORT! THESE ROPES, THEY CUT MY OLD
=L£SU. I CAWOT LOOSED THEM.
THEY SAID THREE /MINUTES! IT'S THAT NOW) |
THAT BOMB - IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE!
I /UU5T-I-
OBM
NATSCHACHNER A
WE LEFT 5ALLV, SAMMY
AND GEORGIE INI A NASTV
AUTO CRACKUP. ARE
THEV ALIVE, HURT, 0 R DEAD? ANYWAY, THERE
WENT THE LAST HOPE OF
HELP REACHING JOE WORKER'
IN TIME.
LESS THAN FIVE SECONDS TO SO,
AND JOE HAS SARELV OPENED
HIS EVE5. HE IS DAZED,.,
UNABLE TO MOVE. ..
!
#36
BFUNNV! 5OUND5 LIKE JAP MACHINE GUN&.
COHEN1, MURP//Y! HALLO! WAT'RE WAITIM6
FOR?
JOE IS GROGGY, HE THINKS HE'S BACK ON |
IWO JIMA WITH HIS BUDDIES!
IT'S A GRENADE!]
DUCK!
THE BOWBIAIPOANSM'S
Mill WILL. GO OFF IN FIVB
SECONDS, AND JOE
WORKER IS ONLY
HALF-CONSCIOUS, AND
SALLY, 5 A M M AND GEOR5IE, RACING
TO THE RESCUE, GOT INTO A
SMA5HUP, IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THE
UNION-BUSTING, HATE-BREEDING
EA61ES HAVE WON OUT!
MEANWHILE SPIKE AND PHIL ARE WAITING
OUTSIDE, GLOATING.-,
GET SET, SPIKE!
IT'S GOING
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
WHAT A CATCH! WHAT
A THROW! THANKS,COHEN.'
YOU'VE SAVED OUR LIVES!
IWO JIMA! GALESBURG! I'M-STILLMIXED UP. BUT I'VE GOT T O - THROW
THIS-HARD'
THE LAST SECOND HAS TICKED OFF! WEAK
AS HE IS, CAN JOE HURL THE BO/MB
OUT IN TIME?
#37
THE NEW
COMIC STRIP
HERO
SAUV!)
N-NOT MUCH,
BUT I'M WEDGED
BEHIND THE WHEEL
GEEl THAT WAS 5OME SMACKl ) HEY! WE'RE
I THOUGHT WE WERE G O N E R S ! / FERGETTIN1
ABOUT MR.
WORKER!
GOOD GRIEF! JOE! THE BAGIE
THE BOMB! HOW FAR ARE
WE FROM THE MILL?
ORKER
NAT SCHACHNER
DM ID BERG j.
WEAK AND STILL DIZZY,
JOE WORKER TRIES TO
THROW THE DEADLY
BOMB OUT OF THE
POLANSKI MILL WINDOW.
BUT THE TIME'S ALREADY RUN OUT!
MEANWHILE, LET'S GO BACK TO S4LLY,
SAMMY AND GEORGtE.
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
YOU BETTER LET US PASS, MISTER, OR
THE BOMB HAS EXPLODED! BUT WHERE?
INSIDE OR OUT!!!
#38
JOE! I THOUGHT \ I THREW THE BO/MB OUTVOU WERE-KILLED! I JUST IN TIME! BUT
A
WHERE-?
THE NSW
COMIC STRIP
HERO
GOLLY! LOOK T THAT BIG
HOLE ACROSS THE STREET!
W H A T A THROW!
SEE! THERE'S
TWO FELLERS
OUT THERE
PRETTY ME5SED UP!
SPIKE AND PHIL! THEY
HUNS AROUND TO GLOAT
AND FOUND DEATH
INSTEAD.
HERE COME THE
POLICE!
OMR
and DM ID BERGII.
WE LEFT SALLy, SAMMY
AND GEORGIE FROZEN
IN THEIR TRACKS AT
THE 5I6HT OF THE
EXPLOSION AT POLANSKI'5
MILL. WHEN THEY RECOVERED AND
RUSHED TO THE SPOT,-.
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
LATER, THAT MORNING, IN THE UNION OFFICE
WE PICKED UP SOME OF
THE EAGLES MR. WORKER
THEY'VE CONFESSED.
HOW ABOUT
THE BRAINSMORTON GATES
AND DIANA
THEY SKIPPED
TOWN.
WAIT TILL BILL WATERS
HEARS ABOUT DIANA.
HE NEVER WANTED TO
BELIEVE MS.
BUT WHY DID THEY WANT T VOU WERE THE
TO HARM ME? I TRIED
I SCAPEGOAT,
TO DO 5 O 0 D AND HELP / P O L A N S K I , TO
MV FELLOWMEN.
/ H I D E GATES'S
REAL SCHEME TO G/MB
POWER AND BUST UNIONS.
BUT AS LON6 AS ALL RACES,
AND RELIGIONS STICK TOGETHER,
MEN LIKE SATES WILL FAIL!
IT'S FROM BILL WATERS,
HE'S IN WASHINGTON.
WANT5 US TO MEET
HIM T H E R E - T O D A Y !
GRACIOUS! I
WONDER WHAT'S
TELEGRAM!
SALLY AND JOE DON'T KNOW I T - B U T
THINGS ARE COOKING IN WASHINGTON!
#39
THE HEW
come STRIP
I'LL NEVER AGAIN DOUBT
INTUITION, SALLY-AT LEA5T
ABOUT A WOMAN.
HERO
BEING A MAN,
SILL,YOU NATURALLY
FELL FOR DIANA'S •
ER- CHARM!
,
H/WM! ANYWAY, JOE,
VOU DID A SWELL JOB
CLEANING UP THE
EAGLES.
DON'T GIVE M E ALL THE
CREDIT. THERE WAS
SALLY AND THE SECRET
FOUR WHO DID JUST
AS MUCH
SECRET
FOUR?
YE5, YOU KNOW THEM-THE
FOUR KIDS, SAMMY EPSTEIN,
GEORGIE BROWN, MIKE
REILLV AND TOMMY JONE5.
IN A WAY IT'S FUNNY.
ORMR
(Bu NATSCHACHNER (
< W DAVID BERtr j
THE EAGLES AND THEIR
CAMPAIGN OF MURDER AND
HATE HAVE BEEN UNMASKED;
AND MORTON GATES AND "
DIANA DALE HAVE GONE INTO
HIDING. BUT BILL WATERS,
UNION PRESIDENT, HAS SENT A TELEGRAM
TO JOE WORKER AND SALLY TO MEET
HIM IN WASHINGTON. WE FIND THEM
THERE.
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
THAT'S JUST WHY I CALLED
VOU TWO DOWN TO
WASHINGTON.
T H O S E YOUNGSTERS ARE TRUE AMERICANS'!
NOT MORTON SATE6 AND HIS RACKETEERING
CROWD. BUT RISHT NOW A FIGHT IS STARTING IN
CONGRESS-TO KEEP THOSE KIDS-EXCEPT
TOMMY JONES-FROM GETTING DECENT JOBS
ThE GPOV UP.
HOW DO
THAT THOSE FOUR KIDS-A JEWISH
VOU /MEAN?/ LAD, A NEGRO, AN IRISH CATHOLIC
ANO AN ANGLO-SAVON PROTESTANT,
HELPED KNOCK OUT A GROUP
DEDICATED TO SPREADING HATE
AND DISUNITY
AMERICANS.
VOU MEAN « P C THE FAIR EMPLOYMENT
BILL?
EXACTLY! UNION LABOR
HAS DECIDED TO 6ST
INTO THE FISHT TO
"ASS IT THIS TIME
i\:TH A BANG.' A N D
HERE'S WHAT YOU
CAN DO!
FROM KIDNAPPINGS, MURDER AND BOMB* TO .
NATIONAL POLITICS IS QUITE A JUMP? OR IS IT? ,
#40
BUT WHAT CAN
SILL? WE'RE
LOBBYISTS.
YOU'D MAKE A MIGHTY
PRETTV ONE, SALLY.
BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT
I HAD IN MIND.
VOU KNOW THE ARGUMENT
EMPLOYERS ALWAYS USE
AGAINST HIRIN6 THOSE
OF A DIFFERENT RACE,
RELIGION OR COLOR.
YEAH!
"OK, W E DON'T
DISCRIMINATE. IT'S
OUR WORKERS WHO
FEEL THAT WAV."
THAT'S WOT TRUE1. AT
LEAST U N I O N MEMBERS
KNOW BETTER!
EXACTLY. AND
THAT'S WHERE YOU
COME IN.
JflJlLL WATERS HAS CALLED
JOE WORKER AWD SALLV
SIMMS DOWN TO
WASHINGTON TO HELP THE
FIGHT FOR A FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES ACT,
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
339 - e i g 0 E s -
WE WANT CONGRESS TO KNOW IT'S A FAKE
ARGUMENT. BUT WE CAN'T DO IT BY JUST
T E L L I N G THEM. WEVE GOT TO GIVE
I SET IT. YOU WANT US TO SET JOBS
INSIDE SOME BIG OUTFIT THAT DISCRIMINATES
AND FIND OUT WHO'S REALLY TO BLAME: w~
THEM F A C T S !
NOT COLORED, OF COURSE. BUT JEWISH? IT'S
THE BUNK YOU CAN TELL A MAN'S RELIGION
PROM HIS =ACE BUT \% TAKING SAMM*
EPSTEN ASO GtOR E BROUUS
PATHERS
THAT WAS STUPID OF
ME. WHERE IS THIS
DLACE
MAMMOTH MILLS IN
MILLTOWN'S BEEN
RAISING HE
.OJ3E5T
V - H U5
BUT JOEI HOW WOULD
WE KNOW? WE CAN'T
PASS AS - S A Y - JEWISH -j
OR COLORED?
• ; / , / ,
S O - A WEEK LATER-MILLTOWN HAS FOUR
STRANGERS IN ITS THRIVING MIDST. ,
No. 41
MACHINIST, EH? OKAY, REPORT TO >i
un •» DI ANT
uevTi
WHAT'D YOU SAy
YOUR NAME WAS?
fi
Jin
ER- DAVID EAPS, SIP. I'M i
GOOD TOOL/MAKER. I -
MILLTOtVN 16 A HUGE INDUSTRIAL
CENTER. IT'S ALSO A TROUBLE
SPOT FOR RACE RIOTS AND
DISCRIMINATION - THE
KIND THAT FEPC MISHT
CURE. JOE WORKER AND HIS
FRIENDS ARE TRYING TO SET JOBS IN
MAMMOTH MILLS, THE BIS6E5T PLANT
/N TOWN.
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
EAPS EH? WHAT
CHURCH DO YOU
4TTEND?
SAME AS
ME, SIR,
METHODIST!
JOE HAD EXPECTED DAI/E EPSTEIN WOULD RUN
INTO THIS. THAT'S WHY HB INSISTED HE SAY
HIS NAME WAS E A P S !
My NAME'S JIM BROtVN.
I'M A MASTER TOOLMAKER,
WITH 2 0 YEARS...
HMM! OKAY,' THEN, EAPS.
REPORT TO NO. 3
PLANT. NEXT!
IXNAV, BROWN.
ALL WE SOT
FOR Y O U ISA
PORTER'S JOB.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE
A PORTER? BUT I JUST
TOLD YOU I WAS A —
TAKE IT, JIM,
REMEMBER
WHAT WE CAME
HERE FOR.
SO-MAMMOTH MILLS, FOR ALL ITS TALK,
DOES DISCRIMINATE! LET'S SEE IF IT'S
REALLY THE WORKER'5' FAULT, AS THEY CLAIM.
No.
42
SALLY IS SECRETARY TO ALFRED WALKER,
PRESIDENT OF M A M M O T H . . .
THE UNIONS ARE JUST TRYIN6 TO STIR UP
TROUBLE. LET THEM CLEAN THEIR OWN
HOUSE FIRST. HOW ABOUT JIM CROW
UNIONS? HOW ABOUT-
BOSS I SOTTA
TA K - O YOU.
JUST A MINUTE, BERT.
E R - I'LL FINISH LATER.
DEAR SENATOR'. THE PROPOSED FEPC
AN INSULT TO AMERICAN INDUSTRY. W E
WOULD HIRE EVERYBODY; BUT IT'S THE
WORKERS WHO WONT LET US.
JOE WORKER AND HIS FRIENDS
GOT JOBS WITH M A M M O T H
M I L L S TO SET THE
LOW-DOWN ON DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOVMENT. JOE AND 5ALLVBEINS WHITE PROTESTANTS — HAD
NO TROUBLE. BUT DAVE EPSTEIN
HAD TO CHANGE HIS NAME/ WHILE
JIM BROWN, NEGRO, COULD ONLY SET
A PORTER'S JOB!
SALLY'5 SIGHT. THERE'S A MYSTERY MERE,..
MEANWHILE, IN NO.3 PLANT,..
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
WHY ALL THE SECRECY? AND SINCE WHEN
DOES A BIS SHOT TALK WITH A MACHINIST?
HOWDY, BOY5! I'M JACK TAYLOR.
WELCOME TO THE SLAVE PIT!
OOE WORKER? CAVE EAPS?
WELL, MAKE YOURSELVES AT-
I'M JOE
WORKER AND THIS
IS- UH—
DAVE EAPS!
JOS SORT OF
SHORTENS MY
NAME, TAYLOR.
T'5 REALLY
EPSTBIN? THEN )
YEP, I'M JEWISH. WHAT'S
YOU'RE-UH- 1 VOUR RELIGION, TAYLOR?
EPSTEIN!
DAVE EPSTEIN LOST NO TIME IN
STARTINS HIS TEST. HOW WILL
TAYLOR, A FELLOW- WORKER, REACT?
259
No.
43
rue N'EWCOMIC STRIP
HERO
SEP, I'M JEWISH.
WHAT'S Y O U R
RELIGION, TAYLOR.
ME? WHV-UH-I'M
BAPTIST. BUT SAY,
WHAT'S THE DIFF
WHAT MY
RELIGION IS?
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT MY FRIEND EPSTEIN
HAP IN MIND. yOU STARTED TO ASK
HIM FIRST, YOU KNOW,
GEE! YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING THERE. >
[ NEVER THOUGHT
BEFORE, i
(Bu NfiTSCHACHNER ('
W -DAVID BERG- I
DAVE EPSTEIN HAS JU5T TOLD
HIS FELLOIV-WORKER5
WHAT MI6 NAME IS. IT'S
A TEST. WAS MAMMOTH
MILLS TELLING THE TRUTH
WHEW THEY SAID THAT THEY
DISCRIMINATED ONLY BECAUSE
THEIR WORKERS INSISTED ON IT?
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
IT'S FUNNY, TAYLOR.. Of WE HERE COULDN'T
HAVE GOT A JOB ATMAMMOTH IF THEY
KNEW HIS NAME WAS E 'STEIN. BUT T H E Y
CLAIM IT'S V O U fill YS WHO WOULDN'T
WORK WITH H IM.
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)
EPSTEIN! I DON'T
LIKE NO SUV '
NAMED EPSTEIN!
HEY, FELLERS!
D'YA HEAR THAT ?J~
IT
%as
j
1
k iji v\
11" i
5=5
HERE IT STARTS! BERT WAS THE
GUY WHOM SALLY SAW TALKING
WITH THE COMPANY PRESIDENT!
No. 44
1 DON'T LIKE NO SW NAMED EPSTEIN!
AN' I DON'T LIKE
NIGGERS, EITHER.
I DON'T GIVE A HOOT
WHAT SOU THINK 4SOUT
M E ; BUT JIM BROWN
THERE'S MY FRIEND!
SO YOU WANT TUH FIGHT,
HEY? WHY, VOU SKINNY -
LET ME HANDLE
THIS, DAVE
EPSTEIN AWV BE 5KINNY,
BUT HE'D WIPE THE
FLOOR WITH VOU, HE
USED TO BE IN
THE RING,
DAVE EPSTEIN \}AD JUST
TOLD HIS REAL;NAME TO
THE BOVS AT MAMMOTH
MILLS, IT WAS JOKAY
WITH EVERVONEjSUTONE
339
NATIONAL LABOR SERVICE
WELL-UH-I
DIDN'T KNOW^
NEVER MIND THAT, LOOK
HERE, &ERT! YOU'RE A
UNION MAN, AREN'T YOU?
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SURE I
I PAYS MY DUES
REGULAR,
BERT CAN'T HELP HISSELF.
WE GOT A CLOSED SHOP
AN'THE CHECK-OFF,
EVER READ THE UNION
CONSTITUTION, BERT?
WHAT FER? I AIN'T
GOT TIME TUH
BOTHER WITH
SUCH STUFF.
A GOOD UNION MV
OUGHT TO. YOU'LL PINO A
SPECIAL CLAUSE THERE.
HOLy CATS, BOVS!
HERE COMES
OLD WALKER
HISSELF! FIRST
TIME IVE EVER
SEEN HIM IN
THE SHOP,
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SOMETHING SPECIAL MOST BE IN THE
WIND WHEN THE PRESIDENT OF MAMMOTH.
LEAVES HIS PRIVATE OFFICE!
SET SACK TO YOUR JOBS,/WEN, YOU'RE NOT ,
BEING RAID TO HOLD MASS /MEETINGS HERE, M
TAYLOR, BERT-UH-WHO ARE THESE NEW MEH? J
TUB NEW
COMIC STRIP
HERO
JOE WORKER, SIR, f\ DAW-UH
EAPS? DIDN'T YOU JUST TELL
ME YOUR NAME mi EPSTEIN?
NOW WHAT DID
BERT GO'N DO
THAT FOR?
(HIKE
(By NATSCHAZHHER
a*d DAV/D BER&
JUST AS JOE WORKER
WAS GOING TO 0UOTE
A CERTAIN CLAUSE IN
THE UNION CONSTITUTION
TO BERT, THE GREAT MR.
WALKER HIMSELF, PRESIDENT OF
MAMMOTH MIIIS, CAME HURRIEDLY INTO
THE PLANT,, -
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YES, SIR, I THOUGHT IT WOULD
BE EASIER TO GET A JOS IF I
CALLED MYSELF
YOU'D BETTER SO AND GET VOU« TI/ME, I
DON'T WANT ANY OF VOUR KINO - ( U P ! )
MR, WALKER HAD JUST REAtE/MSERED THE
REASON HE CAME INTO THE PLAHT.
NEVER /MIND, SET TO
WORK, /HEW, ER-THERE'LL
BE SOME GENTLEMEN
HERE TO ASK YOU
QUESTIONS, ER-DON'T
TALK TOO /MUCH.
UNDERSTAND"
WHEW,1 VOU HAD '
A CLOSE
SHAVE, 5P6TEIK
I WONDER
WHAT'S SOIHSOHH
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE? QUESTIONS?
WHAT IS GOING ON?
THAT WAS A DUMB STUNT,
BERT BUBBLING DAVE'S
NAME TO MR, WALKSR.
BERT ISN'T AS
DUMB AS HE
PRETENDS, TAYLOR.
I BET HE'S EVEN
NOW LOOK HERE, SUV,
THAT'S THE SECOND
TIME YOU PULL THAT
STUFF ON ME. I
TELL YOU I AINT
SOT TIME.,,
THIS UNION CONDEMNS RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS
BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION AS CONTRARY TO
UNION PRINCIPLES AND THE DEMOCRATIC
WAY OF LIFE,,.
W R , WALKER WAS G0IN6
" " T O FIRE DAVE EPSTEIN
FOR BEING E P S T E I N
WHEN HE REMEMBERED
A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
WAS COMING TO HIS PLANT
MEANWHILE JOE WORKER HASN'T
FINISHED GIVING BERT A LESSON
IN UNION IDEAS.,.
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GEE! THAT'S GOOD STUFF,
I'LL HAVE TA REMEMBER
THAT!
AND HOW
ABOUT VOU,
BERT?
AW! I DON'T HAFTA ANSWER VOU, I AIN'T
ON NO WITNESS STAND.
LABOR-BAITERS STIR UP PREJUDICES AGAINST
CATHOLICS, JEWS AND NEGROES IN AN ATTEMPT
TO DIVIDE THE WORKERS AND DESTROY
OUR UNIONS. WE CALL ON ALL OUR
MEMBERS NOT TO FALL FOR THAT LINE,
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MEN-UH-THESE SENTLEMEN
ARE A COMMITTEE OF
CONSRESS. THEV WISH
TO ASK VOU SOME
QUESTIONS.
OH, OH! SILL
WATERS MUST
HAVE SOTTEN
BUSY!
IN THE CHAIR IS SENATOR BROADVIEW,TO HIS
LEFT IS SENATOR BULLHEAD; ON HIS RIGHT,
SENATOR PETERSON.
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COMIC STRIP
HERO
OSEER
THE WITNESS'S NAME IS BERT LUNK, HOW,
MR. LUNK, WE WANT YOUR TESTI/MONY, ON
WHAT THE WORKERS THINK ABOUT THE
PROPOSED PBPC HOW LONG HAVE YOU
WORKED HERE?
YEARS. AN' r .DON'T V. AH, YOU MEAN
.IKE NO FEPC,9EEI.IDONTWWfTjNE6ROES,
10 NIGGERS, MICKS, OR
f CATHOLICS AND
(IKES IVOHKIN' ON TH'
/ J E W S , DON'T
MB BENCH WITH M E ! / VOU, MR, LUNK?
AW, IT COMES TUH
TH1 SAME THINS!
IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT,
HE'S MALIGNIWS GREAT
NUMBERS OF HIS
FELLOW-AMERICANS.
OH! OH! HOW DID ME
MANAGE TO BE FIRST
$u NATSCHACHNER f
< W DAVW BERG
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H SENATE COMMITTEE
- ^ HAS COME TO MAMMOTH
M I L L S TO INVESTIGATE
DISCRIMINATION IN
EMPLOYMENT. WALKER
HAD CLAIMED IT WAS THE
WORKERS THEMSELVES WHO REFUSED
TO WORK SIDE BY SIDE WITH MEMBERS
OF DIFFERENT GROUPS. A HEARING
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IS BEING HELD.
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ON THE CONTRARY, SENATOR PETERSON, I THINK
MR. LUNK IS RIGHT. DOMJ M V WAY WE CALL A
SPADE A SPADE, W E KNOW HOW TO HANDLE
THAT K I N D -
SENATOR BULLHEAD, YOU'RE
NOT /MAKING A STUMP
SPEECH NOW,
EVERY MOTHER'S
SON O1 THEM,
THERE, VOU SEE! I TOLD
VOU IN ADVANCE WHAT
WE'D FIND. IVE MIGHT
AS WELL GO BACK
AND REPORT-
#48
HE'S LYING, MR.
SENATOR, BERT
LUNK'S A COMPANY
5T00SE! IF YOU'LL
CALL SOME OF
THE OTHERS- .
YOU'RE INSULTING THAT I HOLD ON, BULLHEAD
GREAT AND TRUE
THIS GIRL IS
AMER/CAN,/HR, WALKER,
RIGHT. IT'S OUR
I'LL HAVE VOU,,,
D U T V TO CALL
MORE WITNESSES
SALLY HAS SPILLED THE BEANS, WHAT
WILL WALKER DO ABOUT HER?