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Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 8 February 2008
 
History on a banner

• ISLINGTON Trades Union Council (ITUC), which was re-launched last year, will be hosting a presentation of its new banner at its annual meeting at 7.30pm on February 21 at Islington Town Hall, with MP Jeremy Corbyn and Frances O’Grady, from the TUC, as guest speakers.
The banner will depict the history of the labour and trade union movements in Islington, from 18th century radical Tom Paine, who wrote Rights of Man at the Angel Inn, down to present-day workers.
Also portrayed is the rally of 100,000 trade unionists in Copenhagen Fields in 1834 petitioning for the return to England of the six Tolpuddle Martyrs transported to Australia for forming an agricultural union, and five trade unionists jailed in Pentonville prison in 1972 for upholding union rights.
ITUC co-ordinates trade unions to campaign for better working conditions and for community benefits. Come and join us at the unfurling of our banner.
It will be a historic event for Islington trade unionists and the borough.
GARY HEATHER
President
MICK GILGUNN
Secretary
Islington Trades Union Council, N4

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