IMAGE
[Industrial unrest and union deregistration]
- Date
- [1974]
- Reference
- A-456-239
- Description
Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicts Norman Kirk, Prime Minister holding up a lighted match to the fuse of a large cannon labelled "Deregistration big gun". A worker carrying a placard which reads "Everybody out" stands by the mouth of the cannon. Caption at top reads " Would you believe..." and caption at bottom reads "They both vote Labour?". The dog character to one side thinks "I've had a gutsful". Refers to industrial unrest, strikes by workers, tensions between the government and unions, Kirk's frustration with the unions which he expressed publicly in July 1974 as "having had a gutsful", and the threat of union deregistration.
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Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).
Physical Description: Black ink drawing, felt pen, crayon, within printed Ronken frame, 202 x 292mm. Printing notes in blue biro.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983] / Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons created by Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]
- Format
- 1 original cartoon(s), Cartoons (Commentary), Black ink drawing, felt pen, crayon, within printed Ronken frame, 202 x 292mm. Printing notes in blue biro.
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