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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 at bottom: Of course not, & no money to spare either! If you give him sixpence you know it will probably do him more harm than good. Prevent the unemployed from becoming the unemployable, by Buying Empire Goods, & finding work at Home & in the Dominions.
Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1927"; above image, "Got a Job Guvnor?"; below "Of course not, & no money to spare either! If you give him sixpence you know it will probably do him more harm than good. Prevent the unemployed from becoming the unemployable, by Buying Empire Goods, & finding work at Home & in the Dominions."
Illustration shows a ragged man accosting a well dressed man carrying a cane and briefcase.