Related Journals

• London Printers’ Circular and Vigilance Gazette Became The London Printers' Circular and Vigilance Gazette in May 1889 (and ran until May 1890)

Start Date(s)

• 1888 (Shattock)

End Date(s)

• 1889 (Shattock)

City

• London, England

Type of Content

Notes

• "If, as Mazzini says, 'association is the word of the epoch,' truly may the Member of the LSC Vigilance Association claim to have marked an epoch in the history of the London Society of Compositors. Assailed as they have been by a print in which officialism seems to have relegated intelligence to a back seat, termed 'carping critics,' and generally misconstrued by offended dignity and its satellites, the Committee and Member of the Vigilance Association, fortified by the unanimity within their ranks and the support of numerous sympathisers throughout the trade, have determined, by the publication of the VIGILANCE GAZETTE, to place their views beyond the pale of misconception....the primary object of this Association be the promoting of the interests of the London Society of Compositors by all means in its power" (title page no 1, Rule vii).
• "It is [its intention and]...the aim of the GAZETTE, to give support to those at the helm of the L.S.C. heartily and ungrudgingly...indeed, to do otherwise would be to forfeit the sympathy and support the Association has received, and to undermine [its prestige]..." ("Introduction" 1:1, May 1888, p.1).
• "Reports of meetings, short articles, important correspondence" (Harrison 578)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Trade Unions

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Harrison et al. 578; 52; 76

Works Cited

• Harrison, Royden, G. B. Woolven, and Robert Duncan. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check-List. Humanities P, 1977.