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Regular meeting of the Tyne and Wear Branch

Monthly Branch Meeting

This was held in Durham City on Saturday 3rd November 2007. Billed as being “In the spirit of the Big Meeting” (i.e. the Durham Miner's Gala), this event was sponsored by Tyne and Wear IWW and North East Area NUM.

The fair was conceived to cater for those with an interest in radical politics and North East labour history, as the region has no bookshops dedicated to these subjects.

One local Wobbly describes how ................

.......... It began on a winter Sunday afternoon on the banks of the Tyne. In a bracing wind, the Secretary of the IWW British Isles Regional Organising Committee, two Wobs (yours truly being one of them) and a potential recruit met in Gateshead to talk about the future. By the end of the meeting, we were three willing members of the embyonic Tyne and Wear General Members Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World.