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Drawing for an advertisement promoting the purchase of products produced in the British Empire, part of a government campaign devised by the Empire Marketing Board of Great Britain.
Caption continues: His Worship the Mayor in a weighty & eloquent speech remarked: "It's no use grumbling and doing nothing to alter the present state of affairs. But-if everyone will "do his bit" in Peace, as he did in War, by the simple expedient of purchasing goods made either in Great Britain or in the Dominions, the unemployment problem will be materially simplified; and we shall soon see a Reduction in the crushing burden of Rates" (Loud Cheers) Moral: Buy Empire Goods!
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1927"; above image, "Reduction of Rates"; below, "His Worship the Mayor in a weighty & eloquent speech remarked: ..."
Illustration shows the Lord Mayor of London standing at a podium.