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Temperance cartoon with a liquor wholesaler pitted against a working class family, Victoria, BC

Newspaper cartoon showing a fat man in a morning suit and top hat on the left and a woman with two children standing beside her and holding a baby.

Photographer: Unknown
BC Archives, HP072479

The date of the image is unknown.

Working men generally opposed Temperance, and the Union Local in Michel, BC in August 1917 passed a motion that their members needed liquor to continue working.