yes, and wages were less than $1 per hour and the regular work week was 48 hours – and no pension, IRA, 401k or Social Security. Yeah, the good old days
Reminds me on the joke about two elephants in a bathtub and when says to the other ’ please pass the soap’, and the reply, of course, was ‘no soap. Radio’
I do think that this toon was set well before the ’60’s