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LDG/1/1/19
Title
Trade figures
Date(s)
- 3 December 1969 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 cartoon
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Scope and content
Cartoon shows Barbara Castle and Harold Wilson attacking a sprouting weed with the face of Vic Feathers. The weed is labelled "inflationus featherus" and the sun in the sky is labelled "trade figures".
Background info: Vic Feather (General Secretary of the Trade Unions Congress) had just held discussions with Barbara Castle (serving as Wilson's Frist Secretary of State and the Secretary of State for Employment and Income) on incomes policy (Source: The University of Kent, British Cartoon Archive).
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LDG/1/1 (A)
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Name access points
- Gibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist (Subject)
- Wilson; James Harold (1916-1995); Baron Wilson of Rievaulx; politician (Subject)
- Castle; Barbara Anne (1910-2002); Baroness Castle of Blackburn; politician (Subject)
- Feather; Vic (1908-1976); General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress in Great Britain (Subject)
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