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Relief Fund', and a man in a striped waistcoat and boater hat stands in the middle of the crowd, gesturing with his left hand. A strip of the photograph has been overlaid with a drawing or engraving showing the interiors of the houses and ship. Goods are being unloaded from the ship into the neighbouring warehouses; in the houses families do various jobs connected to social progress and welfare. The house on the left has a poster for the 'Nautical Progress Society', the middle house has posters for the East London Federation of Suffragettes and free medical treatment for poor people, and a placard for the Worker's Dreadnought advertising a planned dock strike, and in the house on the left a woman is sewing a banner reading 'Unity', while another woman holds a poster for a day nursery and clinic for working women. 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