6 - Cartoon 288 - The Corporation unemployed

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6 - Cartoon 288 - The Corporation unemployed

Printed cartoon entitled 'The Corporation Unemployed', from 'The Leprecaun' February 1910. The text under the title states that 'During the recent snow in the city the streets were neglected for days. We venture to offer the above suggestion.' The foreground shows members of Dublin Corporation going to work in the freezing cold with a sweeping brush, spade and shovels. Their implements show their job titles - Lord Mayor, town clerk, medical officer of health, comptroller of rates, and (member of) cleansing committee - and their annual salaries. This depiction suggests that Corporation members should be clearing snow from the streets, as a useful return for the wages they are paid. Ordinary members of the public are shown in the background with a banner that states 'Give us work for our wages. We are starving'. The printed version is stuck to the reverse of the original drawing of the cartoon, which is minus its title and text.

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Reference Number: TF/6

Date: February 1910

Creator Name: Fitzpatrick, Thomas, 1860-1912

Copyright: Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Credit Line: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

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