TitleCartoon - Parliament opens, complete with bayonets, while workers starve, by Maro
ReferenceFRAMED/927
Date
n.d.
Scope and ContentCartoon by Maro showing George V, Ramsay MacDonald and one other in the royal carriage. On either side of the road there are guards with fixed bayonets. Big Ben is in the background
Extent1 item
Physical descriptionDimensions (WxH): 33.9cm x 29.5cm. Card
LanguageEnglish
Archival historyThis cartoon should have appeared in the Sunday Worker for 12 Feb 1928. However a blank space appeared instead with a text box in the centre reading: "The 'freedom' of the press. Maro's scathing cartoon - exposing the hypocrisy of the ceremonial opening of Parliament and its relation to unemployment and hunger - has been censored by the printers
Related object
Persons keywordRowney, William, MacDonald, Ramsay, George V
SubjectParliament, Politicians, Unemployment
Conditions governing accessOpen
Conditions governing reproductionCopyright: Not known
Levelfile
Normal locationAA Framed Box 5 (Cellar)