Hopelessly Bound to the Stake

"Behard Gillam drew this political cartoon for the Puck Press in 1883, depicting a workman chained to a stake"

-The Government did have some kind of responsibility for placing the workers on the stake by allowing them to work in treacherous conditions and permitting them to work for a major amount of hours to end up getting paid very little.

"This cartoon signifies the cruel treatment by the wealthy industrialists toward their workers. Laborers were forced to work fourteen to sixteen hour work days in order to fulfill their quota, they worked in unsafe conditions, and they were paid about $400-$500 a year, while living costs estimated $800 a year"

- This quote shows how the workers were underpaid, and worked in horrible conditions.Also how the bosses could care less about them.