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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.

Associated Event

Associated Organisation

National Union of Mineworkers

Associated Person

Dinah Morley (Owner)
Mike Davis (Owner)

Material

Metal
Plastics

Dimension

Diameter: 38mm

On display?

No

Inscription

miners
want jobs
not
dole
SOUTH WALES
AREA NUM