"If Old Scrooge Came Back Today..." - U.S. Department of Labor (1936)

"If Old Scrooge Came Back Today..." (1936)

U.S. Department of Labor

Here's an interesting pamphlet issued by the U.S. Department of Labor in 1936.

It contrasts the plight of Tiny Tim from Scrooge's day with the then-modern children who were similarly afflicted (using a now out-of-date but not-meant-to-be-offensive then term).

Here's the cover:

And here's the first couple of pages:

The rest goes on as you'd expect, but drops the Scrooge motif.

I do like the snappy little recap of "A Christmas Carol" that serves as the foreward!