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Bishopsgate Institute

Wapping strike material

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0372 LABOUR HISTORY MANUSCRIPTS/36

Held at: Bishopsgate Institute

Title: Wapping strike material

Date(s): 1986-1987

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 File

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No futher information.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

No further arrangement at present.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying and scanning facilities are available for a charge and will be completed by archival staff if condition and copyright permits. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.

Finding aids:

ADLIB Online Catalogue.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by John Lang February 2012.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Natalie Whistance.