Editorial cartoon depicting railroad and coal workers looking at highways and hydro-powered machines still working while both the railroad and coal industries are on strike and worrying about the future if the country decides it can move along without them.

Editorial cartoon depicting Harding golfing for a strike settlement held by the public while railroad executives and strikers squabble. Hard times hopes that Harding will miss so that he can win.

Editorial cartoon split in to three panels, each one showing a possible consequence of the impending railroad strike. In the top panel, Uncle Same driving a truck labeled "U.S. Business Conditions" and a truck labeled "Winter" stopped on the road by detour signs with the railroad strike causing the disruption and need for a detour. In the middle panel, a man representing the United States is in bed sick and resting while the doctor tells him he should be fine as long as no complications set in; running towards the house is a boy with a newspaper proclaiming the railroad strike. In the bottom panel, striking railroad workers stand around a train which is carrying relief for workers suffering from armament competitions.