Inspiration for insurrection or harmless humour? Class and Politics in the Editorial Cartoons of Three Toronto Newspapers During the Early 1930s

Employs data and qualitative analysis to demonstrate that the editorial cartoons of three Toronto newspapers - the conservative "Evening Telegram," the liberal "Toronto Star," and the communist "Worker" - are illustrative of their ideological stances and readerships during the period 1929-33. Concludes that the "Worker" was the only paper focused on social and class conflict issues. More generally, although not always political, the three newspapers' cartoons reflected the social tensions, political partisanship, personal rivalries, and class struggle evident in both Toronto and Canada during the early Depression years.