CARTOON - REPAIRING HOUSE

Ben Strange was a prominent political cartoonist in Western Australia who worked for the Western Mail from 1900 to 1930. This is a drawing by Ben Strange collected by Ivor T Birtwistle who worked at the Western Mail.
For many years Ben's political cartoons were a key feature in the newspaper. In the late 1920s his popularity had declined but he was still the key political cartoonist for the paper. Instead of two full page cartoons in the late 1920s Ben would still produce a weekly political cartoon and contribute cartoons to the papers 'A Page of Fun' that features amusing cartoons, stories and jokes.

The cartoon was published in the Western Mail on August 1 1929 on p8 in the A Page of Fun section of the paper
The cartoons caption is [Angry foreman: That man over there works twice as hard as you do. Indolent Labourer: Yes I have told him about it, but he don't care.