Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.1160
Object Name
Badge
Title
Don't Buy The Sun, News of the World, The Times, Sunday Times
Place
Wapping, London
People
Rupert Murdoch; Adolf Hitler
Events
Wapping dispute
Description
Round white badge, "Don't Buy The Sun, News of the World, The Times, Sunday Times", with the "Don't Buy" in red with the other text in the logos of the respective newspapers.
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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