Transcription:
Panel 1:
Mr. Block: I won’t work for two dollars a day. Them Eastern news papers said that the wages here in Dakota is six dollars.
Boss: If you don’t take a job at once I’ll land you in the rockpile for seven months.
Panel 2-4:
Mr Block: What else could I do, I had to take the job. Two dollars ain’t much but there’s one consolation about this. I am told they got the eight hour day here in Dakota. I am almost played out. I started at four in the morning and it’s nearly twelve now. It’s a good thing that I have the whole afternoon for resting up.
Panel 5:
Boss: It’s dinner time, get your sowbelly and hurry back to work!
Mr. Block: I thought you had an eight hour work day here in Dakota.
Panel 6:
Boss: Eight hour day, that’s correct… Eight in the forenoon and eight in the afternoon.
scary how relevant this comic still is a century after publication
That’s why I had to make this community lol this comic is a century old, and it’s still a radical publication to this day!