Mr. Block
 Mr. Block is a United States comic strip character commemorated in a song written by Joe Hill.Mr. Block who has no first name was created November 7 1912 by Ernest Riebe a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Block appeared that day in the Spokane newspaper Industrial Worker smoking a cigar and wearing a checkered suit with 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.