Having Their Fling Slideshow

Art Young’s: Having Their Fling

Arthur Henry "Art" Young (1866-1943)

an American cartoonist and writer. He is most famous for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left wing political magazine The Masses between 1911 and 1917.

T h e H a y m a r k e t a f f a i r ( a l s o k n o w n a s t h e Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor d e m o n s t r a t i o n o n Tu e s d a y M a y 4 , 1 8 8 6 , a t Haymarket Square in Chicago.

Leftist movements were already associated with domestic terrorism Art Young, 20 years old

witness to The Haymarket Affair

The Masses was a graphically innovative magazine of socialist politics published monthly in the United States from 1911 until 1917, when federal prosecutors brought charges against its editors for conspiring to obstruct conscription.

Employed beautiful art to help convey their political beliefs.

Many themes are relevant today.

Also employed controversial art.

August 1917 issue

Conscription-Compulsory enrollment and induction into the military service.

The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy.

The American Civil War was still fresh in the minds of Americans. The children of civil war veterans were politically active.

September 1917 issue

“…All I know is that the cause of the workers is right and the rule of capitalism is wrong, and right will win.” - Art Young

Young, at fifty-two, was a nationally famous political cartoonist, who had been the Washington correspondent for the Metropolitan until 1917, and a contributor to Life, The Saturday Evening Post, and Collier’s, in addition to the Masses. A member of the Socialist Party, he was a crusader for women’s suffrage, labor unions, and racial equality. - Max Eastman

Arthur Henry "Art" Young (1866-1943)