The Whistle is Blown...

Peter remembers that the "whistle was blown" one Saturday- and questions whether the dispute had been engineered. The Unions of the News of the World said that they were not going to accept this change and introduction of new technology and were going to walk out. So the management instead of prompting a negotiation agreed to this walkout and the men never did return to work. Rupert Murdoch had already got the Wapping Press Unit up and running and the paper was produced without the printers. Street violence followed the departure and demise of the printers and this new technological environment changed everyone and everything for good, Peter recounts that it was a domino effect around the country- very dramatic and very quick.