My dear Prime Minister,

You will remember that in previous letters I have drawn your
attention to a new form of publicity which the Empire Marketing
Board is developing to interest workingmen in this country in
Empire matters. The method is to get out small posters stating
that a contract for Australia, India or some other Dominion is
being executed in the works and that if they want to get more
contracts they should buy the produce of Australia or of the other
Dominions. The scheme is progressing in a very satisfactory way
and at the present moment over 300 factories in Great Britain are
displaying these contract posters on their Premises. [1]
I have just received four photographs shewing the way in which the
posters are being used. I am enclosing these photographs which I
am quite sure you will find very interesting. The smallest of the
four is the most interesting. It shews the Works Council of the
Stanton Iron Works Co. Ltd. near Nottingham meeting in a room on
the walls of which the contract posters for Australia and for New
Zealand are being exhibited. The other photographs shew the way in
which the contract posters are being exhibited in some of the
larger workshops in this country. I think that these photographs,
and especially the one of the Works Council, are so interesting
that you might like to let your colleagues in the Cabinet see them
and possibly make some arrangement whereby Members of Parliament
might also see them. I understand that the Empire Marketing Board
is making some of these photographs available to the Overseas
Press.

Yours sincerely,
F. L. MCDOUGALL