{"product_id":"vote-labour-1929-british-coal-propaganda","title":"Vote Labour 1929 | British Coal Propaganda Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bare-chested miner throws his weight against a pickaxe, his torso rendered in dense charcoal cross-hatching against an unbroken black ground. Below him, red slab-serif type demands 'SAVE BRITAIN'S COAL INDUSTRY' and bold black capitals command 'VOTE LABOUR'. No background, no scenery: only the labouring body and the political imperative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by Verney L. Danvers (Verney Lionel Danby Danvers, 1895–1973) for the 1929 United Kingdom general election, this poster was published by the Labour Party and printed by Ben Johnson \u0026amp; Co. Ltd of London as Primer No. 6 in their campaign series. The election, held on 30 May 1929, was contested in the direct aftermath of the 1926 General Strike and the collapse of the British coal industry's wages settlement. Labour's campaign focused on industrial policy and workers' rights; the party won the most seats and Ramsay MacDonald formed a minority government. The coal industry remained a central political fault-line throughout the interwar years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDanvers was one of Britain's most active interwar commercial artists, producing posters for the Underground Group, LNER, Shell-Mex, and Southern Railway alongside political commissions of this kind. The miner figure's expressionist vigour, loose gestural cross-hatching, the strain of the upward thrust, sits closer to continental European political graphics of the 1920s than to mainstream British commercial poster art of the same period. His 'Training in Commercial Art', published by Pitmans in 1928, reflects his standing as both practitioner and educator in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced from archival source as a 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Print. A primary document in the visual history of British labour politics and interwar graphic design.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Poster Archives","offers":[{"title":"A4","offer_id":63809389560185,"sku":"VPA-13359-A4","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3","offer_id":63809389592953,"sku":"VPA-13359-A3","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":63809389625721,"sku":"VPA-13359-A2","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70cm","offer_id":63809389658489,"sku":"VPA-13359-50x70cm","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1","offer_id":63809389691257,"sku":"VPA-13359-A1","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100cm","offer_id":63809389724025,"sku":"VPA-13359-70x100cm","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0","offer_id":63809389756793,"sku":"VPA-13359-A0","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1139\/4937\/files\/Propaganda-VoteLabour-SaveBritainsCoalIndustry-1920s.jpg?v=1782033114","url":"https:\/\/vintageposterarchives.com\/products\/vote-labour-1929-british-coal-propaganda","provider":"Vintage Poster Archives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}