This is a Yorkshire Television film showing the then Prime Minister, James Callaghan, being granted the freedom of Sheffield on February 7th 1979, with a demonstration being held outside the City Hall. The film begins showing a demonstration with banners for: ‘Sheffield Social Services Field Worker’, ‘This council is leaving social workers out in the cold’, ‘workers not martyrs’,  Fight on Pay’ and ‘Sheffield Hospital Workers’.  They are standing chanting outside the City Hall as James...

This is a Yorkshire Television film showing the then Prime Minister, James Callaghan, being granted the freedom of Sheffield on February 7th 1979, with a demonstration being held outside the City Hall. The film begins showing a demonstration with banners for: ‘Sheffield Social Services Field Worker’, ‘This council is leaving social workers out in the cold’, ‘workers not martyrs’,  Fight on Pay’ and ‘Sheffield Hospital Workers’.  They are standing chanting outside the City Hall as James Callaghan and his wife arrives.  James Callaghan enters City Hall and inside signs a book before making a lengthy speech to those assembled, and the film comes to an end.