Related Journals

• Vigilance Gazette
  • Was The Vigilance Gazette (May 1888 through February 1889; nos. 1-6, or nos. 1-3)

Start Date(s)

• 1889 (Harrison et al.)
• 1888 (Shattock)

End Date(s)

• 1890 (Harrison et al.)
• 1889 ()

Editor(s)

• London Society of Compositors

City

• London, England (Harrison, Woolven, and Duncan, Warwick Guide)

Type of Content

• "Reports of meetings, short articles, important correspondence" (Harrison p. 578)
• Contains "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 L.S.C. 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" ("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 L.S.C." ("Introduction," no. 1, May 1888, p. 1)
• "Organ of the London Society of Compositors Vigilance Association; To promote and strengthen Trade Unionism among compositors to its 'proper position as the leading combination of work men in the first city of the world’" (Harrison p. 578)
• Publisher's address (LSC): 3 Racquet Court, Fleet St., London

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Trade Unions

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Bateson p. 88
• COPAC
• Harrison et al. p. 578
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 52
• St. Bride (online)
• Stewart vol. 4, p. 477
• Waterloo (online)
• Willing’s 1891, p. 70

Works Cited

• Bateson, Frederick Wilse. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 3: 1800-1900. Series editor George Watson. Cambridge UP, 1969.
• 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.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
• 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, St. Bride Library, 2022.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.
• Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.