It is 30 years years ago today that 5,500 newspaper workers went on strike after failing to agree terms and conditions with Rupert Murdoch's News International over a move to a new and high-tech printing plant at Wapping in the London Docklands.
On a first reading of Lord Northcliffe’s Newspaper Millionaires, a pamphlet published by the press baron on the year of his death in 1922, I was struck by his concern for the welfare of the printers who worked on his newspapers.
