Mr. Block goes to the Dakota Harvest

Part 2

Transcription:

Panel 1:

Mr. Block: I won't work for two dollars a day. Them Eastern news papers said that the wages here in Dakota is six dollars.

Boss: If you don't take a job at once I'll land you in the rockpile for seven months.

Panel 2-4:

Mr Block: What else could I do, I had to take the job. Two dollars ain't much but there's one consolation about this. I am told they got the eight hour day here in Dakota. I am almost played out. I started at four in the morning and it's nearly twelve now. It's a good thing that I have the whole afternoon for resting up.

Panel 5:

Boss: It's dinner time, get your sowbelly and hurry back to work!

Mr. Block: I thought you had an eight hour work day here in Dakota.

Panel 6:

Boss: Eight hour day, that's correct.. Eight in the forenoon and eight in the afternoon.