This may be the perfect summation of the power of labor, and the ultimate necessity of any labor movement.

There have been times when the fight for labor was literal. It was bloody, and sometimes lethal.

Eat the rich

This one lacks the satisfying final panel showing severe injury to the offender but the message is perfect

Mr. True is punchy.

I like him.

But the character was eventually rediscovered. One of the collections was reprinted in 1983, sparking a minor flurry of new interest in Ev. He’d long since fallen into the public domain, so others were free to use him — and comic book writer Tony Isabella (creator of Black Lightning, The Champions and It, the Living Colossus), collaborating with several artists, did.

https://www.toonopedia.com/true.htm

I hypothesize this is one of the post-public domain examples. The signature there is hard to read, but it’s not Condo (the creator) or Meek (who sometimes did them, according to https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/condo_ad.htm) To make a better determination, we’d have to look at the cross-hatching and drawing styles, and track down more examples of the newer comics.

Edit: turns out this cartoon came out in 1911; for example, it was printed on October 10, 1911 in The Tacoma Times and in The Seattle Star and October 17 in The Detroit Times. I think the signature is indeed “Meek”; the first three vertical lines in the signature are an “M”.