CENTENARY CELEBRATION
SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER
Join us for a march, with your branch banner, to a rally at Bridgwater Baptist Church, to commemorate the founding of the town’s organised trade union movement by local rail-workers in 1913
12.30pm: Assemble: Cranleigh Gardens, Bridgwater, TA6 5JS
1pm: Banner parade and march
1.45-2.45: Rally, Baptist Church, St Mary Street, TA6 3EQ
Speakers:
- Rosemary Eaton, Minister, Bridgwater Baptist Church
- Nigel Costley, Secretary, South West TUC
- Rosie McGregor, White Horse(Wiltshire) Trades Union Council
- Bob Crow, General Secretary, RMT
3.15 – 4.15pm: Ships, Bricks & Cellophane: a radical view and discussion of Bridgwater’s political and industrial history, with Dave Chapple, postman and secretary of Bridgwater Trades Union Council
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