Ben Yomen

In December of 1943 "CONGRESSMAN DRIPP' was created for Federated Press. The new weekly series was needed to counteract the anti-labor obstructionists in Congress. "DRIPP" is symbolic of the most reactionary legislators. He's a dixicrat, a bigot, a poll-taxer, and the leader of the bust-the-union crusade. The chuckles it generated from the workers made "DRIPP" so popular that even after FP expired in 1956, editors continued to run the cartoon as late as 1962 with new, updated gag lines.