LevelPiece
Ref NoLDG/1/1/19
TitleTrade figures
Date3 December 1969
Extent1 cartoon
Creator NameGibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist
DescriptionCartoon 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).
Access StatusOpen
FormatDrawing

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