Related Journals

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

Start Date(s)

• 1888 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1889 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• London Society of Compositors

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• Contains information about "the delegate meeting, the Vigilance Association, notes and queries, correspondence, the auxiliaries, a wrong fount, obituary, our trade committee, athletics, the clicker system" (Waterloo Online)

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. . . . [T]he primary object of this Association [will] be the promoting of the interests of the London Society of Compositors by all means in its power" ("Introduction," no. 1, May 1888, p. 1)
• "It is the intention of the Vigilance Association, as it will be 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 the prestige of the London Society of Compositors" ("Introduction," no. 1, May 1888, p. 1)
• Contains "reports of meetings, short articles, important correspondence" (Harrison p. 578)
• Publisher's address (London Society of Compositors): 3 Racquet Court, Fleet St., London

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Trade Unions

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• Harrison et al. p. 578
• Shattock p. 52
• St. Bride Catalogue (print) p. 76
• Waterloo (online)

Works Cited

• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Harrison, Royden, G. B. Woolven, and Robert Duncan. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check-List. Humanities P, 1977.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• St. Bride Foundation Catalogue of the Technical Reference Library of Works on Printing and the Allied Arts. Governors, 1919. Google Books.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.