Catalogue Number
NMLH.1995.39.15
Object Name
Poster
Title
KEEP UP YOUR END. YOUR TEAM IS THE TRANSPORT AND GENERAL WORKERS UNION. THEY'RE ONE MAN SHORT WITHOUT YOU...
Place
England & UK
Description
Large poster showing an image if a man in white clothes wearing a red cap and holding a cricket bat. There are three wickets behind him with the words "Security, wages, hours, conditions." The rest of the poster reads, "Keep up your end. Your team is the transport and general workers union. They're one man short without you." There is smaller text at the bottom of the poster which reads, "issued on the authority of the general executive council of the transport and general workers union transport house, Smith Square, London, S.W.1." This is a recruitment poster for the transport and general workers union. The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland â where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) to differentiate itself from the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union â with 900,000 members (and was once the largest trade union in the world). It was
founded in 1922 and Ernest Bevin served as its first general secretary.
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