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Cartooning King Cotton

A Poncake Comparison

Cotton Factory Times, 20 February 1914

A Poncake Comparison (Cotton Factory Times, 20 February 1914)

Shrove Tuesday was widely celebrated in the cotton towns, and in this cartoon Fitton uses the making and tossing of pancakes as the visual peg on which to hang another attack on conditions in the weaving sheds, where the weavers faced the problems of steaming, dust and fining.

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