| Description | Papers and correspondence relating to contract for PABX Telecommunications System in Administrative Buildings and opposition to contract with Plessey, owing to the company's dealings in South Africa (Dan Jones, Secretary, Tower Hamlets Trades Council acknowledging the Council's rejection of buying a telephone system from Plessey Communication Systems Limited / Plessey Office Systems Limited; Anti-Apartheid Movement report 'Plessey Arms Apartheid'); Deputation of Plessey shop stewards; Possible need for other sources of funding and risk of surcharge in the event of Plessy tender being rejected; Reasons in favour of Plessey tender- Councillor Beasley's letter of 25 May 1983, and letter from AUEW [Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers] of the same day; Council's eventual refusal of contract - Correspondence between Councillor Beasley and Gavin Laird. |