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
- Made by
- El Hombre (Uruguayan anarchist newspaper), year 1, no. 2, p. 1
- Region
- Latin America
- Country
- Uruguay
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Viera Government
- Leader
- Feliciano Viera
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, Economy and finance
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from El Hombre, Uruguay), 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
ACTUALIDAD OBRERA Como quisiera ver, el «socialista» Piria a sus obreros en huelga
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.
