The unemployed
A crowd of well-dressed idle men under a banner reading 'I Won't Workers' refuses to shovel snow, with a sign demanding two dollars a day and overtime; one shouts 'We'll break into a church first!' The cartoon re-expands the initials I.W.W. into a label, so the union's name itself carries the charge that its members refuse work, and no worker's stated grievance appears in the frame.
- Date
- March 10, 1914
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- John Scott Clubb (cartoonist)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- Labor
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1914, before 1931; LoC: No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright Office.)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Text on the object
I Won't Workers Well break into a church first! $2 A DAY FOR SHOVELING SNOW EXTRA PAY FOR WAITING [illegible — artist's cursive signature, bottom right, catalogued by the Library of Congress as "Clubb 14"]
The banner reads 'I Won't Workers' with the letters of 'I.W.W.' capitalized/enlarged within the words to spell out the pun. The picket sign's apostrophe ('We'll') is not visible/printed in the drawing. The artist's signature is a small stylised cursive mark next to a four-leaf-clover doodle; not legible letter-by-letter, so left as [illegible] even though the LOC catalog identifies it as 'Clubb 14'.
