[Printed pamphlet.] Rules of the People's Printing Press Society Limited. Registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts, 1893 to 1928. Register No. 12750 R London. [With certificate making the member 'an owner of the Daily Worker'.]
Author:
[People's Printing Society Limited; the Daily Worker; the Morning Star; the Communist Party of Great Britain]
Publication details:
Undated [circa 1948]. Registered Office: Swinton House, Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1. [London Caledonian Press Ltd. (T.U. all depts.), 74 Swinton St., London, W.C.1'.]
£165.00
SKU: 10720
8vo, 14 pp. In original stapled blue printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged high-acidity paper, in slightly-discoloured wraps. The ownership certificate (landscape 12mo, 1 p) is printed in red and black, with typewritten details filled in, showing that James Chesterton became a member of the PPPS on 14 July 1948, 'and thereby became an owner of the Daily Worker'. With facsimile signatures of the (female) chairman and secretary. The pamphlet is scarce: the only copies on COPAC at the British Library and Warwick. There is no record of any other copy of the certificate. The People's Press Printing Society (PPPS) is the readers' co-operative which owns and publishes the Daily Worker (known as The Morning Star from 1966). It was established in 1945, with shares sold at £1.