CARTOON - LABOUR PARTY I MUST DISOWN ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE OBSTRUCTIVE ASS

This hand drawn black and white cartoon features a black steam train racing down a track towards a man reading a sign while holding onto the reigns of a donkey or ass which is standing on the railway track and looking at the approaching train with some alarm. The text written on the sign is [STATE ELECTION / TO BE HELD ON / THE 12TH / MARCH]. The text on the front of the train reads [PROGRESS] and the text on the side of the donkey/ass reads [SOCIALISM]
In the foreground on the left if a laughing kookaburra perched on a broken tree stump. Ben’s signature is in black to the right of centre.
The caption that accompanied cartoon when it was printed in the Western Mail on 3 February 1921:
The following are extracts from a leaflet which is being circulated in the West, and bearing the imprint of the Trades Hall: These are symptoms of the approaching end of the wage system. We can easily produce abundance of everything necessary for the needs of the people, but if we cut out the triple cancer of rent, interest and profit which is feeding on the lifeblood of industry. Either an organised revolution by the workers of Western Australia or an intensified form of industrial strife, leading to eventual bankruptcy, unemployment, riots, civil war and chaos. Which do you prefer?
LABOUR PARTY: 'I MUST DISOWN ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE OBSTRUCTUVE ASS.'