WORKERS AND CAPITALISTS
The theme of capitalist greed was often expressed through a political imagery in which the fat capitalist is always opposed to the emaciated worker. This allowed the cartoonist to show industry owners as wealthy and insensitive to the needs of the poor, as exploitative and uncaring. These three cartoons refer to some of the major strikes of the early 1890s and reflect the way in which the labour movement sought to gain support for the workers and reflect their point of view.

Livingston Hopkins, "The Strikes" Bulletin, 23 August 1890, p.13. By permission of the National Library of Australia.

The cartoon The Strike Ended - Throwing Out Dirty Water also shows how unions tried to argue that it was only by joining together that workers could hope to better their working conditions

Livingston Hopkins, "The Strike Ended - Throwing Out Dirty Water", Bulletin, 5 November 1890, p.5. By permission of the National Library of Australia.