LevelPiece
Ref NoLDG/1/3/7
TitleWhy do you persist in holding up containers?
Date15 June 1972
Extent1 cartoon
Creator NameGibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist
DescriptionAt a dockyard a sweating worker is supporting a shipping container on his back, possibly preventing it from being lowered to the ground by a crane above; standing on one of the surrounding containers stands a man in a suit shouting at the worker; one of the other containers has "RIP" written on it; the first draft of the caption was "Sir John Donaldson would like to know why you're continuing to hold up containers".

[John Donaldson became the first (and last) President of the National Industrial Relations Court (NIRC, also known as the Industrial Relations Tribunal) from its formation by Ted Heath's Conservative government in 1971 until it was abolished in 1974. The trades unions, pointing to his Tory inclinations in his youth, nicknamed him "Black Jack", and 181 Members of Parliament (MPs) signed a House of Commons motion calling for his dismissal. - source: Wikipedia]
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