Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.1157
Object Name
Badge
Title
Wapping Wallaby - Hop Off Murdoch badge
Place
Wapping, London
People
Rupert Murdoch; Adolf Hitler
Events
Wapping dispute
Description
Round white badge, "Wapping Wallaby - Hop Off Murdoch" in red around the edge and across the centre. In the middle is a caricature illustration of Rupert Murdoch as a wallaby wearing a top hat with red stripes and white stars on blue hat band.
The badge was produced in support of printworkers, who had gone on strike in response to the management of Rupert Murdoch's News International refusing to negotiate terms for the movement of the printworks of the newspapers to a new factory in Wapping with worse terms of employment, in 1986. Following the declaration of the strike, known as the Wapping dispute, striking members of staff were fired. Mass pickets and a boycott movement soon followed, but the 54-week strike was ultimately unsuccessful.
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