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en Yomen, an artist for
the Worker, will have his
original cartoons, that ap-
peared in over 40 1940s
labor journals, appear at the
Walter P. Reuther Library Ex-
hibit Gallery at Wayne State
through April 30.
Mr. Yomen was born in 1911
in Malden, Mass. Four years
later, the family moved to De-
troit where his father found
work in an auto factory.

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ing to caricaturing patrons in
bars and night clubs. In 1935,
he returned to Detroit where he
worked at the Fleischer Studio,
an organization that produced
the animated cartoon "Popeye"
among others.
The next job was on the WPA
Art Project. Mr. Yomen taught
drawing and painting to chil-
dren after school in run-down
neighborhoods and the classes
were usually held in a church
or a community cen-
ter. During this peri-
od he submitted
cartoons to the many
growing labor papers
and became known
for his views toward
the struggles of the
trade unions organiz-
ing for better condi-
tions. His cartoons
appeared in the fol-
lowing CIO publica-
tions: the Civil Service
Standard, ACA News,
the Retail, Wholesale
and Department Store
Employee, and AFL
publications: Electri-
cal Union World, IL-
GWU Justice and the
Hotel and Club Voice.
In 1943, Mr.
Yomen drew a twice
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weekly cartoon titled
"Congressman Dripp"
A 1946 Congressman Drip cartoon.
for the Federated
Press. In 1945, he became art
Mr. Yomen attended Cass
director of the UAW publication
Tech High School and went on
Ammunition. He also con-
to receive an art scholarship to
tributed material to "Ford
the Wicker School of Fine Art.
He drew a comic strip for the
Facts," UAW Local 600 and oth-
er union publications.
school paper and on Sundays
In the following years, Mr.
attended art classes at the Jew-
Yomen exhibited drawings and
ish Community Center.
paintings in the annual Michi-
During these years he con-
gan Artists exhibitions at the
stantly bombarded New York
Detroit Institute of Arts and the
magazine offices with cartoons
Detroit Scarab Club. He also
and managed to amass a large
continued to create cartoons for
collection of rejection slips.
humor magazines, commercial
His first contact with the la-
advertising, and labor maga-
bor movement came in March
zines . Mr. Yomen developed
of 1932 during an organized "job
a series of cartoons in 1969 of
march" to the Ford Motor Com-
integrated humor, which ran
pany River Rouge plant. The
for a year in the Sunday edition
marchers had been met with
of the the Free Press titled "Filet
tear gas and bullets. Hundreds
of Soul." In 1980, Mr. Yomen
were injured; many others
came back to the UAW with a
jailed, and four young men were
feature of its official interna-
killed. Mr. Yomen and two of
tional publication, Solidarity.
his artist friends went to the
Ben and his wife, Rose, are
scene to make sketches, but be-
still living in Detroit They have
fore they could touch pencil to
two married sons, three grand-
paper, they were arrested and
children and three great-grand-
jailed as "suspects." As a result
children.
of this experience, Mr. Yomen's
The exhibit will appear from
slant on life changed and he be-
9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday and
gan drawing cartoons and car-
Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
icatures lampooning the bosses.
Wednesday through Friday. Ad-
A year later, Mr. Yomen
mission is free For information,
worked in New York City, do-
call 577-4024.0
ing everything from sign paint-

