Union Editor - Cartoon "The Proper Spirit"

As editor of the the Timber Worker, John Curtin often borrowed cartoons such as this one from a London daily to enhance the pages of his paper.

Timber Worker 14 June 1913, page 1.

THE PROPER SPIRIT.

THE MASTER: I am glad to see that you are not one of these immoral trade unionists.
THE SCAB: No, Sir; thank you, Sir - I value my independence as a free-born British Labouring Man, too much, Sir! Why, Sir, - it fair breaks me 'eart sometimes, Sir, to have to share in the benefits they so cruelly drags from you, Sir!
(With acknowledgements to London "Daily Herald".)


	Back to	As editor of the the Timber Worker, John Curtin often borrowed cartoons such as this one from a London daily to enhance the pages of his paper. Timber Worker 14 June 1913, page 1. THE PROPER SPIRIT. THE MASTER: I am glad to see that you are not one of these immoral trade unionists. THE SCAB: No, Sir; thank you, Sir - I value my independence as a free-born British Labouring Man, too much, Sir! Why, Sir, - it fair breaks me 'eart sometimes, Sir, to have to share in the benefits they so cruelly drags from you, Sir! (With acknowledgements to London "Daily Herald".)