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"Keep Our Newspapers British badge" [NMLH.1992.1159]



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Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.1159

Object Name
Badge

Title
6000 Sacked by an American - Keep Our Newspapers British - Don't Buy The Sun - The Times - News of the World - Sunday Times

Place
Wapping, London

People
Rupert Murdoch; Adolf Hitler

Events
Wapping dispute

Description
Round white badge with black text filling the space - "6000 Sacked by an American - Keep Our Newspapers British - Don't Buy The Sun - The Times - News of the World - Sunday Times".

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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