Labor Day

In honor of Monday's holiday, an image of labor. This mural--by Walter Speck, who ran Detroit's WPA arts program--is from that city's headquarters of the West Side Local 174, UAW.

It's a quintessential example of unsubtle 1930s iconography. Check out the assembly line and smokestacks, bosses in suits, workers holding signs (one reads "Today GM, Tomorrow Ford").

I give the artist extra credit for putting both a man and a woman front and center in his mural; it's nice to see the ladies getting the whole muscular-heroic-worker treatment along with the men. Happy holiday! (See here for a great photo of the artist working on the mural. Image source).