Mr. Block

Mr. Block is an American comics character, created by Ernest Riebe in 1912 and commemorated in a song written by Joe Hill.

Block appeared that day in the Spokane newspaper Industrial Worker, smoking a cigar and wearing a checkered suit with a top hat.

Subsequently, Mr. Block lost the fancy clothes but often kept a hat, ten sizes too small, perched on one corner of his wooden blockhead.

Mr. Block owns nothing, yet he speaks from the standpoint of the millionaire; he is patriotic without patrimony; he is a law-abiding outlaw... [who] licks the hand that smites him and kisses the boot that kicks him... the personification of all that a worker should not be."

Please give me your attention I'll introduce to you A man that is a credit to "Our Red, White and Blue"; His head is made of lumber, and solid as a rock; he is a common worker and his name is Mr. Block.