Our (Very) Friendly Societies! mb-height 6658 2nd June 1953

2nd June 1953

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Our (Very) Friendly Societies! mb-height 6658 2nd June 1953'Our (Very) Friendly Societies!', 1886. The representative of Britain's honest and sober working class is diligently posting his small savings into the door of the Cormorant Friendly Society. On the other side of the door can be seen the 'cormorants', the directors of the society who are eating hugely, drinking deeply and enjoying the best cigars. This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name which accuses such societies of keeping poor accounts,