![Item #CL189-149 Pig Iron Bob Dead At Last [Prime Minister Robert Menzies]. Chips Mackinolty, b.1954 Aust.](https://joseflebovicgallery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CL189-149.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1504844765)
Pig Iron Bob Dead At Last [Prime Minister Robert Menzies]
1978. Colour screenprint, “Earthworks Poster Collective” logo in image lower left, 75.7 x 50.1cm. Slight foxing to upper portion of image. Text continues “Obscene imperialist rites for militarist, witch-hunter. Only the ruling class mourns its dead hero.” The background text relates to Menzies’ political career. Held in MAAS. In 1938 while Robert Menzies (1894-1978) was Attorney General, he was given the nickname of “Pig Iron Bob” due to an industrial dispute [the Dalfram Dispute] with wharf workers who refused to load ships with scrap iron being sold to Japan, believing it would be used to make weapons to attack Australia. Ref: Roach, Menzies and Pig Iron for Japan, 1993; Wiki.
Item #CL189-149
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