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LDG/1/6/90
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'They were clearly marked non-returnable'
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- 19 November 1971 (Creation)
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'Davies' Lame Duck Layoffade' is displayed on a large sign in front of lots of bottles. In the middle of the bottles is the word 'unmployment'. [Harold Wilson] stands to the right holding a placrad which says 'save our industrial landscape'. Other political figures in the cartoon include Edward Heath, John Davies and Vic Feather.
[News 19 November: A rise of over 40,000 in the past month brought the total number of registered unemployed in Britain to 970,022. Redundancies showed a rise of 59% on the corresponding month last year] (Source: British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent) .
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- Heath; Sir; Edward Richard George (1916-2005); politician (Subject)
- Wilson; James Harold (1916-1995); Baron Wilson of Rievaulx; politician (Subject)
- Feather; Vic (1908-1976); General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress in Great Britain (Subject)
- Davies; John Emerson Harding (1916-1979); businessman and politician (Subject)
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