Summary

Drawing by Ambrose Dyson, 1945. This cartoon, which was published in the Midday Times on 3 November 1945, was drawn in support of the A.C.T.U.'s demand for a 40-hour working week. A 40-hour week was one of the A.C.T.U.'s demands in 1945, it was granted, after a complicated battle in the Arbitration Court in December 1947. It was exhibited at the Social Realists Exhibition at the Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery in July 1990.

Edward Ambrose Dyson (1908-1952) was a prominent member of the Australian social realist art movement, and contributed a weekly cartoon to the Guardian from 1949 to 1952. His father (Ambrose Dyson) and an uncle (Will Dyson) were also cartoonists. In 1945 he joined the Communist Party and was an active member until his death in 1952.

Description of Content

Drawing - You'd Be Nice To Come Home To

Physical Description

Raw wooden framed, mounted ink cartoon of service personnel outside a Demob Centre looking approvingly at a large 40hrs (white on black).

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