This Week's Sneak Peek, Sort Of

Well, this isn't a clipping from this week's cartoon as much as it's an update of Saturday's Graphical History Tour.

from Miami  Daily News editorial page, April 1, 1926

Searching for the number 764268, friend of the blog D.D. Degg hunted up the probable Rollin Kirby cartoon in Saturday's posting of cartoons in the Daily Worker. Newspapers.com yielded only one other appearance of that cartoon in any available newspaper, the Miami Daily News and Metropolis edition of April 1, 1926.

I had not using the number hanging around the neck of the man in the cartoon as a search term, but now I have, coming up with the same result. (New York Evening World archives after 1923 are not currently available on line anywhere I have been able to find, unfortunately.)

The Miami Daily News printed the cartoon with the same curious headline as did the Daily Worker, and, like the Daily Worker, also without the cartoonist's signature. So I'm still left with the question of who was boycotting what over the congressional bill to require foreign-born workers to register with the government every year.

The boycott in the mainstream news at the time was a Chinese boycott of English goods over Great Britain's possession of Hong Kong, which was serious enough that the British government wanted the U.S. and Japan to intervene. This cartoon clearly has nothing to do with that.

Anyway, thank you to D.D. for digging up this cartoon, and for filling me in on the given name of Daily Worker cartoonist Marvin Pierce "Hay" Bales. Much appreciated!