Reforme

1904 · MA0038 — Printed by The National Press Agency Ltd. and published by The National Reform Union as #234 of the 'National Reform Union Leaflet' series Manchester 1904. 1904. Book. Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. First edition. A single sheet measuring 27cm x 22cm. Folded once with some tenderness to the fold and the paperstock a little toned marked spotted and brittle. Some further soiling to the unprinted reverse. Above the title is a black and white cartoon of two ghostly British officers from the Boer War "Ghosts of the British Dead" alongside the skeleton of a third. One figure points at a line of Chinese labourers and is allocated the quotation "Look there Bill that's what you and I and twenty thousand others died for" this in reference to a labour shortage at the gold mines on the Rand a result of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 displacing large numbers of the indigenous population which resulted in the importation of Chinese labour in 1904. The cartoon was originally printed in a January 1904 issue of the British newspaper 'Morning Leader' and is reproduced here as #234 of the National Reform Union Leaflets. A good copy of a most uncommon survivor. Printed by The National Press Agency Ltd., and published by The National Reform Union as #234 of the 'National Reform Union unknown