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title: 'Actualidad obrera: Como quisiera ver, el «socialista» Piria a sus obreros en huelga (Workers'' Affairs: How I''d Like to See the "Socialist" Piria with His Striking Workers)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/actualidad-obrera-socialista-piria-el-hombre-1916/
description: A stout man in a top hat and tailcoat, one hand on his chest, faces a gaunt, ragged, bearded man who holds a hat in his hand.
section: Collection
---

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[![Actualidad obrera: Como quisiera ver, el «socialista» Piria a sus obreros en huelga (Workers' Affairs: How I'd Like to See the "Socialist" Piria with His Striking Workers)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/actualidad-obrera-socialista-piria-el-hombre-1916.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/actualidad-obrera-socialista-piria-el-hombre-1916.png)

# Actualidad obrera: Como quisiera ver, el «socialista» Piria a sus obreros en huelga (Workers' Affairs: How I'd Like to See the "Socialist" Piria with His Striking Workers)

A stout man in a top hat and tailcoat, one hand on his chest, faces a gaunt, ragged, bearded man who holds a hat in his hand. The headline reads 'Actualidad obrera' and the caption 'How I'd like to see the "socialist" Piria with his striking workers'. Name-calling tell: scare quotes around 'socialista' turn the target's self-description into a charge of hypocrisy, backed by the class contrast in dress and build.

- **Date:** November 4, 1916
- **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi)
- **Made by:** El Hombre (Uruguayan anarchist newspaper), year 1, no. 2, p. 1
- **Region:** [Latin America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=latin-america)
- **Country:** [Uruguay](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=uruguay)
- **Medium:** [Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=cartoon)
- **Issuer type:** [Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=movement)
- **Regime:** [Viera Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=viera-government)
- **Leader:** [Feliciano Viera](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=feliciano-viera)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from El Hombre, Uruguay)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Actualidad_Obrera.png), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published 1916, before 1931; Commons file page cites US pre-1931 and Uruguayan tags) El Hombre (Uruguay) 1 (2): 1, 4 November 1916, via Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ACTUALIDAD OBRERA

Como quisiera ver, el «socialista» Piria a sus obreros en huelga
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
WORKERS' AFFAIRS

How I would like to see the "socialist" Piria with his workers on strike
```

'Actualidad obrera' is the newspaper's column or section heading. The scare quotes around 'socialista' are printed as guillemets.

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