GB 0372 LABOUR HISTORY MANUSCRIPTS/36
·
Fonds
·
1986-1987
Ephemera collected during the Wapping News International dispute and commemorative material from after the dispute. Including:
- Flyer - public meeting organised by Fleet Street Support Unit Rank and File Printworkers (14 August 1986)
- Flyer - Printworkers March for Jobs Glasgow/Newcastle to Wapping welcome (3 May 1986)
- Flyer - Murdoch is Bad News. Don't Buy the Sun, News of the World, The Times, The Sunday Times
- Flyer - Printworkers March for Jobs Glasgow/Newcastle to Wapping welcome (3 May 1986)
- Flyer - Daily Mirror Combined Chapels "friendly" march to Fortress Wapping (14 August 1986)
- Typescript flyer - Ideas for helping to make life difficult at Wapping
- Typescript letter - SOGAT London District Council update listing demonstration dates (19 March 1986)
- Flyer - A personal message to the people of Wapping from sacked workers and invitation to a public meeting sponsored by the Daily/Sunday Telegraph SOGAT Federated Chapel (20 March 1986)
- Flyer - Together we can stop Murdoch, how you can help. Published by the New Communist Party
- Typescript letter - appeal from London Wholesale Workers for solidarity in a 'no' vote
- Flyer - Ballot special, Sold Down the River... Past Wapping. Written by printers for Camden Printworkers' Support Group
- Typescript letter - an appeal from the NUJ to leave Wapping and work for other newspapers
- Newsletter - Streets of Wapping Belong to the People. Published by the Tower Hamlets Printers Support Group
- Typescript newsletter Women Against Murdoch Printer's Wives Support Group
- Typescript letter - London All Union Point of Sale Boycott Campaign
- Handwritten poster - Camden Printworkers' Support Group Grand Christmas Party at Camden Centre (7 December 1986?)
- Typescript letter - invitation to a meeting of the Women Against Murdoch (WAM) Support Group for Wives Affected by the Wapping Dispute (12 November 1986?)
- Poster - advertising a meeting of the support group for women affected by the Wapping dispute (29 October 1986)
- Typescript letter - from the Bromley Left Action Group inviting people to a demonstration against EETPU (18 December 1986)
- Leaflet - titled 'We won't stop Wapping by marching past it' issued by the Joint Chapels Liaison Committee
- Newsletter - Women Against Murdoch (WAM) newsletter no. 5
- Typescript letter - SOGAT London District Council organisational details for TNL NGN dispute (January 1986)
- Poster - Trade Unionists Beware, Rupert's Reward
- Flyer - Demonstration for the right to walk our streets (14 February 1986?)
- Typescript letter - SOGAT update to all members of News Group and Times newspapers (2 April 1986)
- Typescript letter - SOGAT report and ballot paper to all members of News Group and Times newspapers (January 1986)
- Typsecript - offer from News International to SOGAT in confidence
- Proposal from News International to unions, letter from SOGAT to News International members, recommendation from the all unions liaison committee and ballot (September 1986)
- Flyer - addressed to the newspaper reader in Wapping
- Flyer - advertising a marhc from AEU HQ to Wapping (28 October 1986?)
- Typescript letter - SOGAT report and ballot paper (May 1986)
- Typescript letter - from SOGAT to members under News Group pension scheme
- Typescript letter - from SOGAT Machine Chapel regarding BDC 1986 - Scarborough (16 June 1986)
- Press release - by London Machine Branch SOGAT, regarding seeking an injunction against the National Executive Council of SOGAT over the conduct of the ballot on the latest offer from News International
- Typescript letter - SOGAT London District Council to all members regarding the News International dispute agreeing to endorse continued demonstrations at Wapping etc. (19 May 1986)
- Typescript letter - update on the dispute from SOGAT to all members of News International (May 1986)
- Typescript newsletter - London Central Branch Issue 1 (May 1986)
- Typescript instructions concerning picketing and demonstrations from SOGAT (6 August 1986)
- SOGAT strike bulletin Nos. 1, 3 and 4
- Typescript letter - from SOGAT National Picket Control to London District secretary and chairman, branch secretaries and all FOCs/MOCs regarding picketing network and courier service (4 March 1986)
- SOGAT emergency proposition (28 October 1986)
- Flyer - titled 'Fortress Wapping' addressed to the newspaper reader
- Link-Up newspaper produced by a group of activists from all print unions wanting to see a united response to the crisis in the national newspaper industry
- London SOGAT Post volume 1, edition 1 (December 1985)
- Spoof Sun newspaper
- Extract from the Morning Star newspaper