Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.337
Object Name
Poster
Title
Bottled Up by Free Trade and Unfair Competition Working Men Your Only Escape is by Tariff Reform
Description
Election poster, supporting tariff reform
This poster shows a typical "working man" inside a glass bottle stoppered with a cork labelled "free trade". Around the bottle, dancing in a circle, are figures representing other countries, likely Germany, France and America (from left to right).
The text on the poster reads "Bottled Up by Free Trade and Unfair Competition Working Men, Your Only Escape is by Tariff Reform". Beneath this reads "Vote For" and a blank space, in which a local candidates name would be written.
This poster was made to promote protectionist tariff reform, as an opposition to free trade. Many people felt that free trade produced unfair competition for British manufacturers.
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