Excessive Cotton Combing
Cotton Factory Times, 10 November 1916
Thousands of cotton operatives responded to the call to fight in 1914, many joining the local 'Pals' regiments. The demand for more soldiers eventually resulted in conscription replacing voluntary recruitment. Conscription was not welcomed in many Lancashire towns, and in this cartoon of 1916 Fitton expresses a widely-held attitude that the cotton industry was losing far too many operatives to the system.
