Boiling Over

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Cy Hungerford

 

Reprinted from The Pittsburgh Sun in Cartoons Vol. 17, No. 1 

 

January 1920

 

Following the end of World War I, in 1919 and over the next few years, the United States experienced an economic recession and a large number of labor strikes. Meanwhile, the 1917 Russian Revolution had brought the anti-capitalist Bolsheviks, or Communists, to power. The result was a “red scare” in which many Americans feared that radical immigrants and home-grown revolutionaries threatened the U.S. government, the capitalist economy, and American way of life.