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No to a Capital Levy

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Creator Charles Edouard Gogler
Printing year 1922
Sheet size (cm) 127×88.5
Printing technique Lithograph
Printer Säuberlin & Pfeiffer
Condition B
Asking price 1'200 CHF
Categories Plebiscites & Campaigns

The initiative “For the one-time levy on assets” launched by the Social Democrats to reduce the debts incurred during the First World War was rejected in December 1922 with a “no” vote registering 87% (!) of the valid votes.

Charles Edouard Gogler’s red claw reaching for a simple peasant left no room for interpretation. As far as is known, this is the only poster by the draughtsman, sculptor and former director of the Saint-Imier School of Applied Arts.