• Title
  The Orange knock out : political cartoon of John C.L. Fitzpatrick, secretary for mines and treasurer, and the coal strike, 1917 / unknown photographer and colourist
• Call number
  P1/583
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1917
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  886792
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - hand couloured montage on card, lower right hand corner damaged - photograph 16.3 x 20.8 cm ; card (trimmed) 21.2 x 30.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Fitzpatrick was one of six Liberals chosen by W. A. Holman to form his Nationalist ministry on 15 November 1916; he became secretary for mines and on 30 October 1918 treasurer also; the government lost the March 1920 election. During a serious strike in 1917 he carried the controversial Coal Mines Regulation (Amendment) Act which permitted inexperienced men to work in the mines. Labor branded the measure as retrograde and anti-unionist and Fitzpatrick as a murderer, but the strike ended soon after the Act was enforced. His conviction that Australia had a strong obligation to support the British Empire was strengthened by his son's service with the 1st Light Horse Regiment in Gallipoli and Egypt.
  
  Excerpt from the Fitzpatrick entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/ (accessed February 2, 2010)
• Scope and Content
  Fitzpatrick is caricatured as a bird on a fence crowing over a bird laid out on the ground, presumably a union leader of the coal strike. The heads of the two "birds" are photographic portraits of the two protagonists and are uncoloured
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• Variant title
  
  The Orange knock out -- in ink in the centre of the image
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Fitzpatrick, J. C. L. (BM), February 2010
  Digital order no:a4215082
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Cock-a-doodle-do - in a voice bubble coming from the bird on the fence
• Name
  Transport Strike (1917 : N.S.W.)
  Fitzpatrick, J.C.L.
  
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Australian wit and humor, Pictorial.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  caricatures
  ministers (government)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3301732

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