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Correspondence, notes and minutes of meetings relating to the negotiation and implementation of the Guardian and NUJ house agreement and claim for the revision of the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) staff agreement, 10 November 1975 - 12 January 1977.

Correspondents and meeting attendees include: John Ryan, Robert Armstrong, Peter Preston, Mick Downing, Gerald Peter Taylor, Michael White, Roger Rix and Peter Hildrew.

Also contains draft copies and one signed copy of the NUJ house agreement operative from 1 July 1976 and a list of up-dating and contentious items in the NUJ claim for the revision of the NPA staff agreement, nd.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; John Ryan

Records relating to the Guardian National Union of Journalists (NUJ) London and Manchester chapels' claim for an improved fixed expenses allowance, January 1977 - November 1977.

Includes: correspondence between Ken Dodd, Gerald Taylor, Peter Preston, Roger Rix and Guardian NUJ father of the chapels, Mick Downing and Peter Hildrew concerning claim negotiations and implementation, January 1977 - November 1977; lists of staff expenses claims and predicted expenses claims, nd [cApril 1987 - cJune 1987] and notes of discussions between NUJ Guardian chapels and management, June 1977.

Also contains internal correspondence concerning an Inland Revenue audit and journalists expenses allowances, May 1982.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Kenneth Dodd

File of correspondence, notes and minutes of meetings and draft house agreements relating to the negotiation, implementation and revision of the Guardian Newspapers Limited and National Union Journalists (NUJ) 1977 house agreement, April 1977 - March 1978.

Correspondents and meeting attendees include Ken Dodd, Gerald Taylor, Peter Preston, Roger Rix and Guardian NUJ father of the chapels, Mick Downing and Peter Hildrew.

Also contains: lists of NUJ staff salary changes, May 1977; list of Guardian NUJ pensioners, nd; copies of correspondence relating to the Manchester Evening News NUJ claim for a revised house agreement, July 1977; a copy of the Financial Times NUJ house agreement, July 1977 and the results of the 1978 NUJ salary survey, March 1978.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Kenneth Dodd

Individual letters and correspondence relating to the management of Gemini News Service under the ownership of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News, 1974-1981. These include a letter to Derek Ingram (Gemini editor) ,from Roger Rix, (Guardian Newspapers Limited company secretary and director of Gemini), concerning plans to move Gemini offices, salary increases, shareholding and delays in processing account invoices, 24 June 1974- 9 March 1976; correspondence between Derek Ingram, Roger Rix and Oswald Hickson (Collier & Co., solicitors), concerning legal proceedings relating to an article supplied to the Guardian by Gemini, December 1976 and a letter to Derek Ingram from Gerry Knight (Guardian Syndication) informing Ingram of the Guardian's decision to end its ownership of Gemini, 24 September 1981.

Also includes a list of Gemini's debtors, with notes, by Derek Ingram, 1 June 1976 and copy of the agenda and unsigned minutes of a meeting of the board of Gemini held on 29 April 1981, with a compliments slip from Ian Ashcroft (Guardian Newspapers Limited company secretary).

'Confidential' memorandums from Derek Ingram (Gemini editor), to Roger Rix (Guardian Newspapers Limited company secretary and director of Gemini), including an annotated memorandum outlining difficulties with Gemini's marketing, staffing and finances and a memorandum concerning the financial position of Gemini and prospects for the future of the service, 15 March 1974.

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited (GNL) from 21 November 1967 (first meeting) until 18 December 1974. Not indexed.
Meetings were held at 192 Grays Inn Road, London or 3 Cross Street, Manchester.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PW Gibbings; Alastair Hetherington; MGA Jack; HG Milner; GP Taylor; WH Thomas; JC Markwick; Stanley Porter; BLB Hutchings (Lovell, White & King); JJT Stephens (Lovell, White & King); FA Ravenscroft (Cooper Bros & Co); MA Anderson; JHM Kelvie; HC Thompson; JM Cole; RS Rix; NH Thompson; and HJ Abbiss.

The first meeting of the board of directors records the initial administration of the new company including: the incorporation of the company; appointment of directors and secretary; recording of the registered office of the company as 3 Cross Street, Manchester; recording of the company bank account to be opened; recording the common seal of the company (impressed into minutes); and the transfer of shares and the register of members.

Regular items discussed at the meetings include newspaper sales and promotions; advertisement sales; production (including Lancashire Colour Printers and newsprint supplies); the company's financial position and budget; editorial appointments; strategy and development.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording):
Guardian Weekly (1967); Guardian Business Services (1967); impact of devaluation of pound sterling (1967); price increases (1968); acquisitions and shares; editorial strategy (spring 1968); investigation of colour printing (1968); content aimed at women (1968); new building at Deansgate, Manchester (1968); facsimile transmission (1968); Autumn Plans including staff and layout changes - supporting paper (July 1968); readership figures; facsimile production (1968); negotiations with NUJ/NPA (1968); young readers (1968); university exam results (1969); Film 'News Story' (1969); Saturday papers (1969); Guardian's 150th anniversary (1970); Northprint Ltd (1970); wholesalers dispute (1970); commercial radio (1971); European syndication (1971); group structure (1972); investigations into Guardian sharing The Observer's premises at Printing House Square, London (1972); Guardian Study Vacations (part of Guardian Business Services) (1972); typeface change (1973); Gemini News Service (1973); impact of Price Commission (1973); fuel supplies for distribution (1973); shortening working weeks (1973); London printing, contract with The Times (1973); Peter Preston's visit to USA to investigate new technology production (1974).

The minutes of two meetings with separate item numbering sequences are also filed in this volume:
29 December 1967: Extraordinary General Meeting of GNL, 3 Cross Street, Manchester, concerning the increasing of the capital of the company.
5 April 1973: Meeting of a sub-committee of GNL, 192 Grays Inn Road, London, concerning the proposal to purchase Gemini News Service.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited from 23 January 1975 until 29 November 1983. Meetings were held at 192 Gray's Inn Road until 26 August 1976 and were subsequently held at 119 Farringdon Road. Not indexed.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PW Gibbings (Chairman); GP Taylor; Alastair Hetherington; JM Cole; MGA Jack; JC Markwick; HJ Abbiss; RS Rix; S Porter; N Thompson; Peter Preston; Brian Jones; Ian S Ashcroft; DJ McKie; NW Butters; GW Thompson; J Dixey; A Keen.

Regular items discussed at the meetings include newspaper sales/circulation; advertisement sales; production; the company's financial position and budget; editorial and board appointments and resignations; promotions; strategy and development; negotiations with unions.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording): London Printing (1975); wage awards (1976); the move to Farringdon Road (1976); Guardian Weekly (1978); Times Newspaper situation re Guardian printing in Gray's Inn Road (1978); Timehands/Imperial Chapel wage demands (1979); Guardian attitude to NPA (1979); 1980 Committee (1980); proposed printing of Guardian at the Observer (1981); expansion of classifieds (1983); computer development (1983)

The following papers are bound with the minutes:
Recommendations to the Board of the 1980 'Ad Hoc' Committee concerning how GNL should recommence negotiations with NGA/Imperial Chapel, 28 June 1982, paper filed with minutes of 1 July 1982.
Composing Room Agreement, 17 May 1983.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited