News

> Our good friend and comrade, Professor John Gennard of Strathclyde

> University passed away recently. John had been ill for sometime.

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> Many activists and members in the printing and papermaking industry will

> remember John with great fondness.



> John was of great assistance to the International Trade Union

> Movement in the print industry, working as a tutor and a researcher for

> the International Graphical Federation and UNI Graphical and Packaging

>

> John researched and prepared the annual survey of pay and conditions for

> Uni Europa Graphical in the printing industry.

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> John also tutored many training courses in the United Kingdom for Reps in the NGA and GPMU.

>

> He was also the author of the History of the NGA, the History of SOGAT and

> the History of the GPMU and produced the definitive work on Two Centuries

> of Print and Papermaking Trade Unionism in the UK and Ireland.

>

> This latter work greatly contributed to the setting up of the Printers

> Archive and the History of Print Trade Unions at the Marx Memorial Library

> in London.

> >

> John was a great friend to the print unions throughout the world and well known to many officials and activists. He was much

> respected by all those who came into contact with him. He was awarded the Gold Badge of the National Graphical Association.