Badge - miners want jobs not dole
Object
Badge
Production date
1984-1985
Object number
2024.337
Physical Description
Circular badge, red background with black text. Illustration of a mine shaft lift.
Object history
During the Miners’ Strike of 1984-1985, Hackney residents, organisations and the council united to support striking workers in their fight to preserve jobs, particularly through supporting the mining communities in the region of Gwent, South Wales.
Hackney Council provided an office at Hackney Town Hall for three striking miners from the Oakdale Colliery, Gwent. For months they used this office as a permanent base to organise campaigning and collecting food and money for those affected by the strikes. Eight convoys of food were sent to South Wales during the strike.
In August 1984, around 65 children of striking miners’ families from Oakdale and Tredegar, Gwent, were given a week’s summer holiday in Hackney and Islington. Deputy Mayor of Hackney Betty Shanks, who had accompanied the first convoy to Gwent, arranged a Christmas appeal that delivered 175 gifts to miners’ children in Oakdale.
Hackney Council provided an office at Hackney Town Hall for three striking miners from the Oakdale Colliery, Gwent. For months they used this office as a permanent base to organise campaigning and collecting food and money for those affected by the strikes. Eight convoys of food were sent to South Wales during the strike.
In August 1984, around 65 children of striking miners’ families from Oakdale and Tredegar, Gwent, were given a week’s summer holiday in Hackney and Islington. Deputy Mayor of Hackney Betty Shanks, who had accompanied the first convoy to Gwent, arranged a Christmas appeal that delivered 175 gifts to miners’ children in Oakdale.
Associated Event
Associated Organisation
National Union of Mineworkers
Associated Person
Dinah Morley (Owner)
Mike Davis (Owner)
Mike Davis (Owner)
Material
Metal
Plastics
Dimension
Diameter: 38mm
On display?
No
Inscription
miners
want jobs
not
dole
SOUTH WALES
AREA NUM
want jobs
not
dole
SOUTH WALES
AREA NUM