Sid Weighell on Labour Party deficit

Title

Sid Weighell on Labour Party deficit

Genre

Interview

TX Date

30 Jun 1980

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:04:20

Description

Sid Weighell of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) on the announcement of a one-million pound deficit in the Labour Party, and on the decision of his union not to increase affiliation fees to ease the party’s financial difficulties. The interview comes at the start of the NUR conference in Guernsey. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Vivian White?).

Contributors

Vivian White?; Sidney Weighell

Keywords

Budgets; Trade unions; Labour Party; NUR; Railway transport; Political parties; Conferences; Finance; Trains; Channel Islands; Guernsey

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